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Throughout the history of Teamstudio (going back to January 1996), we've always tried to do the "Right Thing." I suppose it's a bit like Google's unofficial motto "don't be evil" (on a much smaller scale, of course). I remember back in 1997 or '98, we made a release of Configurator that had the potential to corrupt a database design. It was pretty unlikely to happen, and we thought pretty hard about whether we wanted the hassle of updating and distributing a new version of the product. But we stuck to our principles, and made a point to mail out a new CD (remember those things?) to every single Configurator customer. We even posted a note right on the homepage of Teamstudio.com telling the world about our screw-up. We wanted to do the Right Thing.

So, that's why it irked me so much to find out that an employee of IT Governance, the publisher of Craig's book, has been spamming the DeveloperWorks forums, as well as LinkedIn discussion groups (and God knows where else) in a pathetic attempt to promote the book. We've contacted this person, and asked her to remove these spam posts, but of course she is not a Teamstudio employee, so we can't make her do anything. The thing that really bugs me about this is that she chose to mention Teamstudio in every single spam posting. Ugh.

Anyhow, for anyone who's been irritated by these acts of online vandalism, all I can do is apologize on their behalf. We've made it very clear to these people that we disapprove of their marketing approach. It's not what we would call doing the Right Thing.