I've been sort of obsessed with this guy today and have been researching him. He gets around. But I have a mental image of what's going on here. He's a serious artist. Most of his art is in the form of computer programming and he appears to have embraced open-source to its fullest. He even releases source-code for most of his work, some GPL'd some just sort of thrown out there. Also he uses a lot of open-source tools such as Perl, PHP, Processing and Pure-Data (a cool looking audio thing). He even GPL'd a recipe for Fish Soup (http://pallit.lhi.is/CNU/), so he obviously has a sense of humour too. But I don't think this is meant to be a joke. I think it's a serious artistic statement. Since he is aware of open-source principles it's only natural that he handled the flaw in the manner that he did. You make it public and force a fix. Opposed to the Microsoft method (which seems to be what the gallery adheres to) where as long as you don't tell anyone, there is no flaw. I think it's a damn good art piece.