point taken
And after review, I think you're correct in that this is a bigger issue on censorship, than what I had as an initial feeling of it being a fascist move by our government.

hey, if you have a better one (word), I'm open to learning.

This was just my first gut reaction after reading the article. Not saying its right, just was topmost in mind.

fascism
/fæzm/ Spelled Pronunciation [fash-iz-uhm]

–noun
1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly
suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive
nationalism and often racism.

Courtesy of Dictionary.com

Dude you must be terribly young and foolish, or my sarcasm detector is broken.

Just remember what Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) wrote (and yes, I know this text origin has controversy, but the overall concept seems apropos here)

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Allowing everyone to have access to everything is an easy way for the facists to get lists of people to "come for"

I want some of the drugs you're on, since for me its much more like "Metropolis" than your idylic world view.

(Oh, and I did know it was a sarcastic statement,even without the appropriate tags)

People need to wake up and start using my long standing philosophy...

"Everything is lower on the food chain"

With its corollary ... "Don't give pet names to your food"

Best case in point I'd seen of this, was one of those reality shows where a family had been given a pig to raise. The intent being they would use it as part of an end of season feast. So they gave it to their son to raise. And, of course name it. So, when the time came tears were shed all around. And instead of being thankful they were able to eat something lower on the food chain, they instead provided drama for all the PETA fools, and child protection idiots to fret over.

Robert A Heinlein, if you leave him out, you would leave out one of the most insightful writers of the 20th century "real world".

Quotes from his books have stuck with me for years. This one in particular has been a favorite, and is especially inspirational at election times.

"Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
Robert A. Heinlein

mors certa, hora incerta

Agree with that, at the very least the idea of a raffle for a prize pretty much sucks. So I come up with an idea that could save the company thousands, or even millions of dollars. and, I get a toaster oven. nice incentive.

Make it a percentage of the cost savings as a lump bonus and you'll not only get more suggestions, you'll get onces that actually have some thought and implementation plans put into them.

Absolutely agree with this. I suspect this "Shared Source" crap is a combination of their Extend and then Extinguish strategy.

Picture a not too distant future, where an Open Source project gets shut down because some of the programmers working on it have viewed the "Shared Source" code. After viewing, they have made changes to their project code. Influenced maybe by what they read, then again, maybe not.

MicroSoft then declares that the code embedded in this project is directly from the proprietary code and therefore invalidates the "open" stricture. Or demands them to pay up licensing.

In any case, the project dies. Then this tainted project starts to kill any other project it has been included in.

Don't call me paranoid, when they're really all out to get me.