The same way DRM destroyed the open computer? I dunno about you but I can still do whatever the hell I want on my computer, and can circumvent DRM if needed.

I'm no fan of DRM, but it's a compromise I'd be willing to make to bring the movie and tv studios inline with the music industry, and if history is any guide, after a few years the tv and movie people will agree to drm-free releases as did the music industry. Play the long game, not the reactionary steadfast to ideology game.

You have to ignore the existence of steamOS for your post to really be relevant.

The times they did?

Someone, somewhere, right now, is killing a baby in your country. Go.

When vbulletin was bought it was turned into a bloated piece of crap. It's only gotten worse since.

Sshhhh! Don't let reality affect your ideology!

Seriously, simple typos and grammar mistakes get through now?

It's nice living in Britain, where the houses are built with bricks :p

I have a locked door sure, but I don't have a 10 inch thick armored steel plated vault door installed in my house either.

I never said expensive, just not cheap. Something I use every day, that is going to take a lot of clicking and moving, I want something better then a £5 mouse.

Stop buying cheap mice then? All the mice I've bought over the last 5 years have all had great scroll wheel clickers.

You can't vertically-align objects without scripting.
Yes you can.

You can't define a horizontal-scrolling element without scripting.
I don't even know what you mean. Do you mean like a carousel? You can, but clunky.

You can't define a non-scripted grid-like layout with proportional, fixed and content-dependant sizes mixed together
Sure you can.

It lacks a simple, integrated, templating and data-binding system
So people build their own, mustache, handlebars, ember.js etc

Yeah, because those white hick towns are so much safer and nicer. It's all about poverty dude.

It is open source itself. troll.

http://multipath-tcp.org/pmwiki.php/Users/DoItYourself

so concerned about privacy = doesn't care about keeping up to date with web technology?

"You whippersnappers with your javascript and your canvas! HTML 4.1 was fine for me, and we didn't use javascript back in my day! It was considered bad practice even!"