A few $100 won't save anyone from the US justice machine. CHOO CHOO

That is highly debatable. Please dial back the Tesla circle jerk just a tad.

Samzenpus seems to ask the bulk of the questions. Was there little interest or was this really just so you could interview him yourself?

Yep. I canceled my DK2 preorder. I'd be more than willing to direct those funds to someone else's preorder while my DK1 collects dust.

Is there a way filter Hugh Pickens DOT Com articles? They're usually just a rehash of something discussed to death, and rarely bring a new point of view. Does nobody else submit content or is Hugh Pickens a slashcode bot...

Photocopier vendors do not open the controller software up to competitors / vendors who provide support. They just give them specs for replacement parts. Do you force Apple to let 'competitors' support OS X 10.5 on G5 Macs? Do you force Google to let competitors still support Google Wave?

Ah yes, mis read. :)

No, support will only come for large enterprise customers.

$3500 is a lot to spend on software

Again do we really expect the target Chromebook consumer to be able to install Linux on them? Chromebooks are meant for mom and dad who can't fend off viruses and updates on their PC...

Exactly. Maybe it isn't just that I got older...

burning man? really? if you are beyond your early 20s and haven't realized how dumb burning man is....

Totally, that is what you and I would do. But that isn't viable for every Chromebook consumer, or even the majority of them.

I think these cloud services are a little different. You probably physically purchased games that are now unplayable because they don't have servers to connect to. Similarly if you bought a Chromebook and Google discontinued the Docs service you'd have purchased a very pretty brick.

No matter who it is, how long it has been around, or what the service is... if it is a cloud service it will one day go away.