Probably, but I was hoping to give them the benefit of the doubt that they were just misinformed. To think that Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony are even remotely comparable to this no-name internet company is laughable.

But they were also not a no-name company. They were a 90 year old company when they moved into the electronic gaming market. Before then they were well-known company in Japan who made card games and all sorts of toys. So while not a multinational company like Sony or Microsoft they weren't a no-name like EVO. Secondly, by the time they had come out with their first gaming console, they had built up a reputation in arcade games both in Japan and America. So unlike this company, Nintendo actually had it's name out their long before they released the Famicom/NES.

Which will be about as worthless as the requirement that Congress is the only body that can declare war. They will just sign over any oversight they have to the president and be a bunch of rubber-stamping pantywaists.

Why would we owe them something for keeping alive a bloated, slow piece of shit?

Sorry, but this isn't true. That it isn't compatible with the GPL doesn't mean it's incompatible with most other licenses. It's perfectly compatible with the BSD/Apache2/X11/Zlib/etc permissive licenses. You're spreading nonsense.

How so? It's accepted as a free software license not only by the OSI but by the FSF as well.

The GPL is incompatible with a ton of other free software licenses. Does that make it "hardly open source" as well?

This isn't the Shared Source License. It's the Microsoft Public License which is accepted as a free software license by both the OSI and the FSF. You seem to be ranting about something completely unrelated to this article.

April 29th falls on the same day of the week in the US as it does in the UK... which means they get it on Wednesday not Friday. You do know we have the same calender on both sides of the Atlantic, right?

We can stand humor, but none of these "joke" stories have been funny in the least bit.