They can still recover from this reputationally very easily assuming egos are not in the way. Accept it happened and make amends and make those things very pub

They can still recover from this reputationally very easily assuming egos are not in the way. Accept it happened and make amends and make those things very public and move forward to making an official announcement together with the so called 'rogue' author (in my opinion he did the world a favour).