Open source projects can charge reasonable fees for distribution of source code. Why are these any different?

How many people out there consider the hours of work this upgrade will take to be free as well? Everyone who purchased a computer has obviously been using it for months, and chances are the majority of them won't know how to or be too afraid to attempt the upgrade themselves. $17 really is irrelevant compared to what they will expect a lot of you on here to do for them. Would anyone here charge under $100 to babysit a stranger's PC while this was going on?

Mickey: Good dags. D'ya like dags?
Tommy: Dags?
Mickey: What?
Mrs. O'Neil: Yeah, dags.
Tommy: Oh, dogs. Sure, I like dags. I like caravans more.

Did you pick SPDIF? My Windows 7 showed analog stereo, HDMI stereo, and SPDIF and I had to select the device I wanted to use. Why on earth HDMI couldn't do full surround and only 2.0 stereo, and the HDCP crapped out every time I changed inputs on either my TV or Onkyo 607 is another story.

MOD PARENT UP!

I think you completely missed the point.
Adobe is a huge company, with tons of resources, and they are shipping TODAY an insecure version that is the cause of most zombied / spyware infested computers in the past few months.
All they have to do is put the patched version on their freaking download page!

Says who? Whose porridge is here in this bowl?

Apparently you are unaware of the writings of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson? Or his impact on the elections in the 1970s?

Is FAT used for anything other than USB drives?

Do you have a bigger source for this? I was wanting to know a good place to take a vacation this summer.

I haven't lived in California since 2001 but can someone tell me if they already supply every child with a laptop? If not, how do ebooks work for those without?

Don't you think the word blog is about as lame as tweet?

Read Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel

is nothing like the guy getting a felony hacking charge for going to a dating site. Who here feels like their work computers are private?

I myself am a moderate, and now two others have come forward. But check the SNR of people spouting crap on every YRO story on here and the loudest are probably the stereotype I am referring to.