When did it all start going wrong? How did we willingly turn over control of our culture to greedy corporates? We condemn regimes with censorship, but are blind to what we have become ourselves.

This is not just what happens to open source software, forking happens to life the universe and everything. Life forks all the time, so why not obey entropy? The result is humans developing from pond-scum, instead of sickly inbred poodles from wolves.

It would help if they didn't drive on the wrong side of the road here... (recent immigrant)

They love it so much, they just about love it to death.

A vital part of human culture is that every generation of people can build upon the innovations of the previous. This is how we got from living in caves to reaching for the stars. Greedy corporations are systematically destroying this mechanism for their own personal gain. This must be stopped or our civilization will have no future. Lawrence Lessig dat a much better job at explaining this than I do: http://remix.lessig.org/

But not in the USA, where is works for the good of the corporation. Like everything else.

I find that most "programmers" that jumped on the internet bandwagon because of hype, are only capable of cutting and pasting code from Google into ready made frameworks. Having your framework yanked out from under you must be really scary in that case.

Somehow Microsoft always come across as socially awkward dorks, especially by lashing out so randomly.

I'm pretty sure our patriarchy will decide against the practice of miracle cures. After all... only Jesus was supposed to do this stuff.

It's nice to see Activision committing suicide like this.

Why aren't tickets sold to name? It'd solve all this stupid scalping stuff.

This clever new DRM system has a nasty side-effect I can't live with. If Ubisoft goes bankrupt or gets fed up with hosting the DRM server, my $60 games dies. They can kill my game at a whim. This is closer to renting than it is to buying.

The only customers of a publicly traded company are the shareholders. The consumers are a natural resource to exploit.

America's fall from grace, causes humanity's fall from space. Will all progress be backwards from now on?

I don't want the manufacturer to have a kill-switch for my device. Rather I want myself to have the kill-switch to my device to use as I see fit myself. Could I screw over a second hand buyer? Sure I could, but he'd know who I was and could sue me for damages if I did, now couldn't he?