They are a huge company. It's not a problem of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, it's hand #27FH53 not knowing what hand #9CJ46DH is doing.

For all of the organizing principles behind this cathedral, disagreements between what one sub-organization wants and what another sub-organization wants are bound to arise.

The people actually selling product, they want to retain ALL rights. This will allow them to generate more profit with 0 additional expense.

The people making the media player portion want their software to be more useful. This requires all sorts of media to be available. So they want as much content available as possible. Preferably for free.

It takes time for the diverse needs that are in conflict to get brought up to the level of management that can arbitrate between them. And it costs money to do so; the company as a whole is better off (i.e. more profitable) if they ignore these types of conflicts until it becomes a problem.

BTW: Hi.

I bought one of their laptops (QLITech's). And what a great system it turned out to be. There's a review of their Emperor model at: www.linuxusersgroups.org.