I remember seeing Rick Santorum debate a climate scientist as if his opinion was equal to the scientist's facts.. In the USA, we are all entitled to our opinions but not our own facts. IFF your opinion is backed up by rigorous research and data THEN you can claim the high ground. ELSE STFU.

It seems the next logical step: Use your DNA to create copies of yourself to perpetuate your "essence" into the next generation. I can think of a few world leaders who would think this was a great idea...

I listen to streaming music all the time, but when I want to *hear* music, I like to pull out the classic 70's vinyl and rock the house.

Not freakonomics but psychohistory.

I don't think its power abuse we're seeing here. Its more like the Dunning–Kruger effect.

These young'uns have learned enough to grok a tittle of what it takes to be a successful software engineer and think "This is easy!" since the majority of people who started on the CS track dropped back to a business major after they got stumped on the first "Hello World" program.

The arrogance will subside in time, once you're forced into a world where your cafeteria card requires funding and your student loans must now be paid...

But you'll still be paying your cable company - since I'm sure thats where your internet access comes from...

True - but look at the end user agreement for the software.

You don't own it.

They should be prevented for distributing updates to their existing distribution that are covered by GPLv3. In essence their distribution will be locked at the current level.

That is, of course, unless they want to dissolve their evil alliance...