Those users don't pay money, but they help to remove the bugs and introduce new features. Or atleast... that's what I do with XBMC.

Personally I don't use Boxee though, I simply can't stand the Boxee user interface and bugs. Some bugs are ok but Boxee has had so many completely broken and/or missing features that it has never been a viable alternative for me. Too bad since some of the interfaces seem better than XBMC out of the box.

It all depends... Silverlight is a plugin too, will they block Silverlight aswell or will they somehow integrate it so it's not a plugin anymore?

Wheter this decision is evil depends on that imho

It's based on history. Every original internet provider provided you full access to the internet. So everything after that is unneeded degradation.

This has nothing to do with business class or not. You pay for an internet connection and should be able to use it to the fullest.

My ISP gives me the option in the control panel to let them filter the standard/dangerous ports for my connection if I want them to. But _every_ port and just about any protocol is available for when you need it. Including native IPv6.

Business lines should be about reliability and extra features like trunked lines, not about something as basic as having all ports available.

So OpenLeaks is actually less open than WikiLeaks? Now I'm confused...

Usually you can shift it into the gear you want, you just have to push a bit harder ;)
Most cars also try to prevent you from shifting to the 1st gear when you're still going 50 kilometers an hours while breaking for a traffic light. Just push a bit harder and you'll succeed easily.

62 million users can't be wrong, right?

from what I've heard, Farmville is very addicting and it constantly has new components keeping it interesting to play for quite some time. But most of the people I know that tried it got tired of it after about a week or so.

If it does than it's by an acceptable amount imho. I keep Opera running for weeks at a time without ever having problems with it.

With Firefox (atleast 3.5 and 3.6) I can't keep it running for more than a couple of days before it slows to a grinding halt. Perhaps the windows version is a little better but under Linux, Firefox is unusable for me. Way too slow.

What if they accidently returned the wrong identification details? Say... the identification details of the copyright holders?

Second that. By far the most pleasant database I've worked with so far and if you don't have everything you need with the build-in features, it's easy to build them yourself.