I don't know if it's luddism or some kind of tech variant of Diogenes Syndrome.

You know, if you announce the end of the world every day for the next ten billion years or so, some day you're bound to be correct.

The answer is the same as to the question "why don't they shove a brace of firecrackers up their butt, light them, and put it on YouTube for our amusement?", which is: "and why should they?" They have built upon an open standard to develop their own propietary format, which they are forcing no one to adopt. This is entirely legitimate, and the market will decide whether it's also good business.

I thought it was because "Apple is teh ebil"?

Typing this on a 2006 Mac.

This is the kind of arrant bullshit that just begs to be disrupted to death. Smartphones were shit and the companies that were complacent with that state got murdered by Apple. Digital music distribution was shit - same thing. Authentication is in an absolutely dire state, and ripe to be disrupted in the same way, as soon as a company with a bit of vision and a pair of balls takes charge. Apple, Google? Fuck knows, but it's going to happen, count on it. "Shitty" is not a stable, long term state in technology - even Windows has been shamed into becoming halfway-useable.

Back during the Soviet occupation they used to be Freedom Fighters, though, and deserving of all kinds of help, support and training...

Less than tobacco, then?

Well, to be fair, if you are sort of right-wing yourself, you need to find some way to make Stalin look worse in comparison, so low-balling the Holocaust and high-balling Stalin's purges is par for the course.

Yikes! At least they can't be accused of wasting too much money on the web site...

Fuck me, I must have slept through the Year of Linux on the Desktop.

Sounds like a typical case of shit-for-brains submitter. :-/

I don't have any moderation points, but... THIS.

people will not only see that you're a geek, they'll smell it too.

Chances are they already do.

Technical term for "propulsion achieved by firing pellets from the rear".