Oh please, give me a break. Most developers I know do it to make money (and have fun at the same time in many cases). It's like the old "I gave this country thirty years of service, and what did it give to me." line. How about a paycheck every two weeks, free or heavily subsidized health care and a pension for the rest of your life!

"And it's perfectly legal." I often wonder for how long? The patent system is so broken it's unbelievable.

I guess if I went out of my way to steal and re-distribute stuff that isn't mine I'd feel threatened by this too.

Maybe the secret documents on how to stitch photos of a swiss valley together are stored there too. http://cdni.wired.co.uk/674x281/s_v/Terabytes.jpg

I remember a friend of mine moaning that Apple's original iDisk service was running on servers provided by the company he worked for, but nobody would know it because it was invisible to the user. He felt that Apple was trumpeting a cloud based storage solution without actually providing the service from within Apple.

Is that the kind of control of a product space you are referring to, branding a cloud based solution as if it were of their own making without even needing to acquiring, rip off, or otherwise replacing the existing solution?

What is it about Apple that pisses sooo many people off? Why can't we all just get along?

I'd rather be endorsed by a bespectacled, long-haired Japanese man in a tutu and leggings rocking out on a bass guitar than a police association any day.

Finders keepers, losers weepers...unless the finder blabs to the whole world he found it and proceeds to take it apart and publish the photos, and the loser is Steve Jobs.

I wonder if that's where the Lith, sorry Lite, comes from in bottom corner beers like Bud, Miller Etc? Maybe it's just me but after a couple of "real" beers from Seattle's own Maritime Breweries and Baron Etc I feel ready to rock, but after a couple of Buds I feel like going to sleep!

I know we're not talking about .com here btw - but you get what I'm ranting and raving on about here ;-)

First they ban porno.com - next they'll be burning women at the stake because someone called them a witch.

Yes, but apart from all that it's exactly like KDE 4.

Cool, more jobs for Real Americans, like plumbing and stuff. That's like software, right? Putting stuff together and running stuff through it.

As an avid reader of Seattle's soon to be discontinued Post-Intelligencer newspaper (another Hearst venture) I'd be thrilled to see an internet version continue on and one day appear on their large format e-reader. As much as I like to read the paper I've never been into the sheer volume of raw materials needed to produce them, yet the online format is restricted by the frame and controls on my web browser and the size of my laptop screen. One thing is for sure - any newspaper that goes Internet only before this depression kicks in will be reaping the rewards when papers who currently rely on print as their main source of distribution fall by the wayside, which they surely will.