Wouldn't have happened if that hacker hadn't cracked the security core through linux. You can go ahead and tell yourself that Sony is being all demonically evil here, but the truth is they are acting in response to a legitimate piracy threat. If that threat didn't exist, then there would be no reason for Sony to waste the time and effort to remove an existing function from a product.

You can blame Sony if you want. I'm gonna blame the root cause of the problem.

The old Ubuntu color scheme is ugly as sin. Who thought that orange and brown would be a good choice?

uh no. we should avoid antibiotics as much as possible except under strict circumstance, or else we'll breed a super bug that antibiotics can't kill.

Pretty much this. People look at phone games differently than other games. They are time wasters. Something to do while standing in line at McDonald's or before a movie starts. No one takes them all that seriously, and people who do tend to find another outlet for that with a real handheld gaming device. It's as simple as that.

The Scopes trial started pretty much this way too

After all, an insane percentage of the modern world's digital infrastructure is powered by Unix/Linux.

I'm pretty sure this is a response to that mega security flaw addon that Microsoft forced into Firefox a while back. Current add-on devs probably won't be affected because they are almost always installed via firefox's own addon installation method. (Just rolls off the tongue, don't it?)

what on earth are you talking about?

Video games are a VISUAL FREAKING MEDIUM!!!!!!!!! This would be like suing an orchestra because you are deaf!!! I sincerely hope that this case gets laughed out of court.

I remember back when I was trying to make the full switch to linux, and I updated my kernel and drivers and to my surprise my video card had decent drivers out of the box. I went onto the local irc channel to ask if anyone knew anything about it out of curiosity. I think my question was worded something like, "Yea I was impressed, I didn't have to jump through the usual hoops to get my video card working fully this time. It was as easy as when I install Windows." I suddenly found myself being berated by both the chatters and the IRC mod at the time. The one comment that sticks out in my mind was, "You deserve to use Windows." All I was doing was asking a simple damn question, in praise of my latest linux install working out of the box! I can't help but think that this same bigoted mindset helped to doom this fairly admirable project, because after attempting to deal with people such as this, it's not even a stretch for me to imagine some linux flavor's project manager going, "Why would we want to impliment a universal standard with Windows? Micro$oft should just do what we do. Windows is a crappy operating system anyway and if you are trying to enable it's use then you deserve it too."