Scoped properly, he's entirely correct. The user doesn't care about standards. The user cares that STUFF WORKS. Standards serve a purpose - but standards are guidelines. Adobe & Redhat had no contractual obligation I assume, so really it's up to either of them to fix the problem - and in fighthing about who did what wrong is pointless if a couple lines of code ora few hours of work are all it will take to make things work.

In this particular situation, the standards were not helping get things up and running, right?