«For all the redundancy built into our systems — multiple servers, multiple hosting sites, Raid drives, redundant power — we were undone by a simple administrative task,» reads a mea
culpa statement on the blog of CrossRef, the organization that maintains the DOI system.
Not exact matches
By August, the company, which sells thousands of drugs and says it fills one in every 13 American prescriptions, was making mea
culpas and renewing its promise to «do what's right, not what's easy,» as the company's mission
statement goes.
While condemning errors is no doubt easier (mea
culpa) than proclaiming defined rectifying truths, it also graciously allows all other options save those being condemned; definitive positive
statements do not.
Rubin's
statement seems to serve both as a mea
culpa and as a platform to launch something better.