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I'd like to know why. Sounded cogent to me.

Sounded like standard bland pr-speak to me. They didn't specifically address any of his points and it comes off as extremely impersonal. I hope for RIM's sake they are sending around a much more detailed memo internally. For instance, the second sentence:

"It is obviously difficult to address anonymous commentary and it is particularly difficult to believe that a 'high level employee' in good standing with the company would choose to anonymously publish a letter on the web rather than engage their fellow executives in a constructive manner"

seems to just strengthen the original author's point 8

says the unsigned blog post.

Most of us do this everytime we post to HN and let our logic stand for itself. I feel this is the most reasonable way to conduct ourselves, and I have come to hate browsing blog comments after being spoiled by HN.

It's definitely reasonable; but we are also not explicitly speaking for a corporation.

The OP was not speaking for a corporation, near as I could tell, but was speaking as a concerned employee. The response from RIMM was equally anonymous, yet it wreaked of the PHB mentality that got RIMM where it is in the first place.

we are also not explicitly speaking for a corporation

Not always the case; eg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1932272, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1502909 etc

Specifically, the portion where they rebut significant attacks on the internal character of the company by pointing out that their bottom line is great. Is that's all they're about? The bottom line?

The entire thing reads like PR-speak. Why even bother with such a non-response.

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