Well this knocks off one of the major reasons I was hesitating on getting the Pre. And lets not just assume Apple will sue. As others have pointed out, Apple does allow other players. But will movies and TV shows work? (no they are drm protected). Guess I'll have to rely on the Sling app for the Pre, or hopefully a hulu solution.

Call me naive, but I wonder why Hulu would not just embrace Boxee and try to work with them. It would save them all the development time and expense, and still allow them to stream their ads. Why should Hulu care how their content is distributed AS LONG AS they get the ad revenue. And they can still develop their own app if they like.

Isn't Waste Management know to be a sleazy company? Old Mafia ties, etc.

I sort of feel like: Wow, the US develops and pays for this cool new thing called the Internet. They open it up to the world and do at least a pretty good job of not being too political about it. It catches on, becomes wildly popular, and now it appears that many in the rest of the world resent them for it. Seems like a classic case of "no good deed goes unpunished"

Mod me a troll if you disagree, but I am genuinely interested in hearing the counter argument. I'm not being flip. I really would like to hear what people have to say. Even if they were doing a really really awful job and being super political, etc, why should they give up control of their own innovation?

Think about it. If there was no "Google" already, and Microsoft choose that as a name, we would all be saying how dorky it was. Same goes for "yahoo" or "skype" or any number of web company names you could pick from a hat.

Their problem is that they really have to come up with something that is a few orders of magnitude better than Google or its not worth switching. It can't be "as good" or even "a little better." Its got to be way way better than google (just like how google was way better than everyone else when they first showed up).

Valid points, but who cares about the backstory anyway. Games are about gameplay. That is the only difference that matters.

Seems more like an example of people having a little fun as evidenced in these quotes from TFA:

"former general in the US Airforce"

USMC, not Airforce. As others have pointed out. Sorry.