What I'm taking away from this as a security researcher is that how you package the argument really matters. Heartbleed showed us that you need to have some PR

What I'm taking away from this as a security researcher is that how you package the argument really matters. Heartbleed showed us that you need to have some PR savvy if you expect to get people to understand the impact of your research, but likewise this shows us that if you're not careful it can backfire. If these guys would have released it with very slightly different wording there wouldn't be as much backlash in this thread and arguing over semantics.