{"id":457,"date":"2008-02-01T22:24:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T02:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/457\/credit-where-credit-is-due"},"modified":"2008-02-01T22:24:53","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T02:24:53","slug":"credit-where-credit-is-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/457\/credit-where-credit-is-due","title":{"rendered":"Credit Where Credit Is Due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fogcreek.com\/\">Fog Creek Software<\/a> are the makers of the fine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcreek.com\/FogBugz\/\">FogBugz<\/a> bug tracking system, which I have started using for managing my own projects. You probably also know one of its founders, Joel Spolsky, as the author of an entertaining and informative <a href=\"http:\/\/joelonsoftware.com\/\">blog about programming<\/a>, and other software business-y stuff.<\/p>\n<p>\nToday, Fog Creek posted an item to their new network status blog, confessing that <em>14 users<\/em> had been <a href=\"http:\/\/fogcreekstatus.typepad.com\/fog_creek_network_status\/2008\/02\/fog-creek-copil.html\">overcharged for Copilot in January<\/a>. Everything&#8217;s OK, these users are being refunded for the overcharge.  The problem is resolved. And yet, Fog Creek chose to publicize the mistake anyway.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFog Creek obviously recognizes that you earn the respect of customers when you&#8217;re willing to admit to thousands (hundreds of thousands?)  that you screwed up, even if only 14 were actually affected.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBravo, Fog Creek.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe reason I&#8217;m blogging this is because, well, I like Fog Creek, but also because I think heaping praise on companies that do the right thing is the best way to encourage other companies to follow suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fog Creek Software are the makers of the fine FogBugz bug tracking system, which I have started using for managing my own projects. You probably also know one of its founders, Joel Spolsky, as the author of an entertaining and informative blog about programming, and other software business-y stuff. Today, Fog Creek posted an item [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}