At that point, speed isn't really the issue yet. Heartbleed was in the wild for two years. Would a day or two have made much difference? Highly unlikely.
Speed matters after the disclosure, when every petty criminal and script kiddy in the world is suddenly empowered.
I agree with you, but what about the people that knew about this before hand? The article references cloud flair, on their blog it says that they knew about this before the rest of us, who is to say those individuals are not bad guys??
