From a tech perspective, Shutting out ideas is never a good idea. From a Business perspective, more markets are better. Politically, that sh*t is how wars start.

From a tech perspective, Shutting out ideas is never a good idea. From a Business perspective, more markets are better. Politically, that sh*t is how wars start.

Jacob Appelbaum and Roger Dingledine talked about this at the 30c3 conference last December. Here's a link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJNxbpbHA-I They talk about this around the 39:55 mark. Basically they weren't thrilled about microsoft doing such a thing, but on the other hand if the attack had been malicious it would have taken down the entire TOR network.

My family has had a player piano for over 60 years. It still works great. The most we've had to worry about from a maintenance standpoint was occasionally replacing an old hose.