Well, that's exactly my thought. From what I gather, the concern seems to
be that there would be a delay in releasing the source to the general
public until the vendors got their patches. My take is that the
pre-release to the vendors afforded time for testing compatibility
issues -- not that there would be a delay in releasing the source to the
general public once ISC was satisfied that the code would behave as
expected.
That's why I called for a clarification. I think that the panic may be
uncalled for. However, I also haven't seen anyone provide clarification
to dissuade any concern.