Those wishing to verify this may prefer to use the project's public mailing lists and change logs as primary sources, rather than WANdisco's press releases.

Below are some of our specific concerns. We look forward to WANdisco's continued participation in improving Subversion, and emphasize that WANdisco's corporate statements do not reflect on our valued developers who happen to be employed there.

WANdisco CEO David Richards claims without evidence that bogus changes are being committed to the master tree. He wrote: "We ... believe it's unhelpful when certain unscrupulous committers decide to commit trivial changes in large files to simply get their stats up. That behavior has no place in any open source project; it's a bad form [sic] and wastes everyone's valuable time." We are unaware of any such behavior among the Subversion maintainers. Our repository logs are always open for public inspection, yet when asked to show evidence, Richards refused.

The first part of [1] would indicate to most readers that WANdisco was involved in the creation of Subversion; only if the reader were to persist for another six paragraphs would they finally encounter a disclaimer to the contrary. [3] has similar problems. WANdisco was not involved in the creation of Subversion. The Subversion open source project was started in 2000 by CollabNet, Inc. WANdisco's involvement started in 2008, when it began employing Subversion committers, all of whom had prior history with the project. Subversion became part of the Apache Software Foundation in 2009. (CollabNet continues to participate in Subversion development to this day, on the same terms as all the other individuals and companies who undertake or fund development work.)