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Oracle Drops Sun's Commitment To Accessibility
An anonymous reader writes "What I feared has come true: after buying Sun, Oracle had a look at its accessibility group and made big cuts in it by firing the most important contributors to the Linux accessibility tools. This is a very sad day for disabled people, as it means we do not really have full-time developers any more." The coverage in OSTATIC has a few more details, including the caution: "This just shows that all too few companies are sponsoring a11y work. If one company laying off a couple of developers spells trouble for the project, then there were problems before that happened" (thanks to reader dave c-b for pointing this out).
People cheat on their spouses all the time.
It would be nice if the world was as you described, but in business, it just doesn't hold good. There are no real commitments. The only real commitments are those that you are forced to uphold - not morally obliged to uphold. This is how companies have been doing business for a long time now.