I hate this line of thought:
http://www.cougarboard.com/board/message.html?id=18733517
This is all irrelevant. This “cover up to save others” is bulls**t. Let your works stand for themselves. Open up the books. Let people see your inner workings. If you are good, then your works are good and people will rally around you. If you are bad, then people will leave and look for good.
Covering up only hurts innocent people.