Yes. They treat every developer the same with regard to policies. Last time I checked, "policies" and "API" are not synonymous of one another.

I'm curious, how do you quantify a completely screwed up moral compass? How does it not occur to you that there is a strong negative sociological impact to celebrating good citizens playing judge jury and executioner? By doing that, literally, your culture is sending the message that life is so worthless that just anyone can dispose of someone else's life if they feel like it's justified. Then *gasp*, you're surprised that people resort to violence and go on shooting sprees when they decide that society wronged them and you will blame it on just about everything except the root cause. In your country, shooting people is fine. In your country, shooting people is fine. In your country, shooting people is fine. That's the real defining difference. There are inequalities, mental issues, yada yada everywhere. Americans are unique in their lack of value towards human life and how good citizens shooting other citizens is a thing.

Do you want to try your whole argument again, this time per capita?

In your culture, "good people" playing judge jury and executioner by shooting other people is something that is celebrated, worshiped, even fantasized about. Life is not valued in the United States. As long as you wont recognize that this completely screws up your country's moral compass and that this plays a great role in "bad people" thinking it's fine to go on a righteous shooting spree when they feel wronged, you will remain stuck with that problem.

I don't know what kool-aid you've been drinking but I don't want any of it.

The public doesn't need to know safety knowledge about anything it doesn't use or can't use.

Obama did so with people's consent and they were clear about what they were going to be using it for. And if I remember right, it was an opt-in. Those are the terribly huge differences between the 2.

I think this person here is unto something : http://forums.bukkit.org/threa...

Mojang has flirted with the idea of a plugin marketplace before and with the idea that plugin developers could make money off them : http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4... Minecraft still doesn't have an official API. As far as we know, it is still in the works. It may VERY well be that Microsoft is planning to make a plugin marketplace from which they plan to make a certain percentage of profit on all plugin sales. This is the only thing that makes sense to me.