Define serious, please.

And so Cesare Lombroso wasn't so wrong after all!

The Corporatism part is quite right, after all the corporatist state envisioned by Mussolini was a system of lobbies, regulated by formal mechanisms. However, when Deng Xiaoping turned China towards a market economy (but not really a capitalist one) in the 80s, China was already doing comparatively better than India or Brazil, two capitalist states that a few decades early were in a better position than post-revolutionary China. The actual Chinese economic system is a bit complex and not really capitalist, its big players are state owned and the banking system (that is the capitals) is mainly state-owned or under the firm grip of the state.

Xbox is still there only because M$ has deep pockets. The original Xbox lost billions, the 360 lost a couple more billions in its first two years on the market and then never made a steady profit, they can also hide the development expenses for the Xbox in their R&D division, not to mention the expenses for the development of the Xbox OS. The Xbox would not be a viable platform for anyone else, but M$. That's a fact.

Skype lost 8 million dollars the year before the acquisition by M$. Those 2 billions are all for Xbox and WP.

So the problem in Saudi Arabia is not Islam, but the state ideology.

I guess that there are more students in South Africa than workers in a $10 million company.

And the 1988 MIT license is among the OSI approved licences: http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical . The oldest OSI approved GPL license is the 1991 GPL 2.0, the oldest OSI approved BSD license is the 1998 3-clause BSD license. The older BSD licenses are not among the OSI approved ones, because they are clusterfucks, not because there was no OSI at the time.

For the lolz.

The 1988 BSD license is not OSI approved: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd_license .

Before the GPL there was the GNU Emacs General Public License: http://www.free-soft.org/gpl_history/emacs_gpl.html .
A bit of history of the first open source license: http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch09.html .

That doesn't change the fact that a more extreme event would be worse.

Were they ever imaginative and fast to react?

They inherited a monopoly from IBM, they leveraged that monopoly, but outside of the warm, reassuring PC world, that IBM created, they seem to be astray.

They were already part of Sony at the time and yet they used X Emacs. They used and use Linux a lot, they used and use Scheme/LISP a lot and they used and use X Emacs a lot. Take a look at their presentation for the development of Uncharted from GDC '08: there's a nice screenshot of Emacs on Windows (they use Cygwin!) with some Scheme code.

PS4 use LLVM/Clang. PS3 allegedly used gcc as backend. Both use Visual C++, but only as a frontend and only if you want to use it. Bonus slide: http://image.slidesharecdn.com/unchartedtechgdc2008-110214171906-phpapp02/95/slide-25-728.jpg?1297725639 .

Real men use Emacs...

No kidding, kiddo, here is a list of Naughty Dog's Jak and Daxter development tools:
Allegro, Common Lisp, Visual C++, Maya, Photoshop, X Emacs, Visual Slick Edit, tcsh, Exceed, CVS

From Gamasutra and Visual C++ is there just because it was the only compiler supported by Sony at the time.