Ah, Techdirt: Free is good! Non-Free will die! Now, if it doesn't work out for you, your business model sucks. Every time you read "business model" on Techdirt, pretend it says "Plan $X for Getting Money." And we don't know what $X is. Neither do they.

Aside from variations on the hostage model, they have yet to suggest a business model that does not succumb to the things they propose in the first place. Example: Discs will be pirated. Solution: Make additional content available to people who buy your discs. Problem: additional content gets pirated ...

Basically, you have to tour if you're a musician. Don't count on T-shirts, because anyone can replicate your T-shirts, cheaper. Sign books if you're an author.

Puke.

Here I was kinda hoping that Mozilla would be focusing more on the issue of not making my browser crash all the freakin' time. I have gone through numerous versions of Mozilla/Firefox, upgrading constantly, sending in the Quality Feedback Agent, and I continue to crash my browser.

This is a very Microsoft-like behavior in that they aren't making things work, but they are happy to implement some sketchy new feature that will sure to be a boon to Big Business. Didn't Slashdot dogpile Microsoft a few years back for a similar stunt?