Really? Isn't the Linux kernel largely volunteer-driven (at least in the same sense as Mono)? Does it also lag behind major commercial projects? Is that why my fucking wifi driver on my laptop doesn't worK? I get it now!

Being a few hundred yards away from a known US military operation, with insurgents carrying weapons, is not defined simply as the 'wrong' place. Its defined as being with the enemy. These journalists knew the risks they were taking by being so close to the action with people that were armed and operating as insurgents. Why is this outrageous? Because it somehow offends your fragile sensibilities that groups of humans on the wrong team got blown up by automatic cannons.