Reading the article you will find that Ubuntu Intrepid was not the only
pre-release affected. So was Mandriva 2009, Fedora 10, Suse 11 and more were
affected, but it seems that Intrepid got all of the bad press. Anyway this shows
how quickly open source can respond.
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