<i>Sure, I can fix it. I wanted to catch up with you on IM as we'd like to regain access to the hudson-labs infrastructure as well. There are a few other VMs we're not sure exactly where they are.</i><p>Do I read this as, "We deliberately locked you out and removed your attribution, and we hint we can fix things, and we want you to do certain things for us, but no we aren't actually saying we'll fix anything and no we didn't tell you about it in advance?"<p>Really, I would just walk away from anyone trying to deal with me on this basis. Come out and say what you did and what you're going to do. If you need my help with something, ask, and don't try to hint things are tied together when they aren't.
Some recent tweets from Jazon van Zyl make it sound like he's holding Kosuke's request hostage:<p><i>This wasn't anyone at Oracle. It was me after a preliminary infrastructure audit, it's not malicious or permanent.</i> <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/jvanzyl/status/34413629902168064" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/#!/jvanzyl/status/34413629902168064</a><p><i>This is my request to @kohsukekawa (<a href="http://bit.ly/fXsvd7" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/fXsvd7</a>) to air everything in a conversation that everyone can see</i> <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/jvanzyl/status/34413629902168064" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/#!/jvanzyl/status/34413629902168064</a><p>So in other words... let's have an IM chat for questions I have about the core architecture of a project you built, and then I'll restore your account?
Considering that the person who responded to Kohsuke is Jason van Zyl, creater of Maven, and not an Oracle employee as far as I know, I have to question the title of this story.
If this was just an honest mistake, the response should have been worded differently.<p>At this point, perhaps the account problem could be fixed immediately, and then a separate discussion started to address the hudson-labs issue. To do otherwise seems unnecessarily infantile.
The removal was done by a Sonatype employee; company which could be potentially more vulnerable to this tactics as their products are subject to be chosen by developers. I would think twice before buying them a product after this.
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