[Gunner]

Wrong thread (and generally wrong forum) for this, but I slowwwwwly acquired a world-class disgust with this species of world-changer.

In short, when they're broke grad students living in dorm socialism, everything from music to software to public transit to... whatever... should be free, and anyone making money from those things is some kind of greedy nazi capitalist pig. So they rip off CDs and software and everything else, all with the highest motives.

Then they and five of their friends have this really great idea for some software, which of course will be done under open source and given away free and they'll all just commit to building and supporting it f'revermore because, you know, that's how the world works.

UNTIL... some bit of that group effort suddenly acquires value, either in the marketplace or because a big company comes sniffing around for the rights, and suddenly these groovy types are living in gated communities, driving Mercedes and mercilessly prosecuting everyone who even thinks about bumping against their patented techniques. Cuz, of course, that's how the world works.