Users are "leeches" ? If you produce open source software and you think of users as "leeches", you are probably using the wrong business model. Users are always good.

"It takes real courage to stand out front telling users about this major hose-job and try to find a way to spin it so the users won’t turn into a lynch mob." – a lively commentary about the MSFT .Net framework assistant Add-on.

Brain Krebs on MSFT's "silent" Firefox add-on: "Anyway, I'm sure it's not the end of the world, but it's probably infuriating to many readers nonetheless. Firstly — to my readers — I apologize for overlooking this…"feature" of the .NET Framework security update. Secondly — to Microsoft — this is a great example of how not to convince people to trust your security updates." Indeed: the lack of respect for the user's preferences with respect to their own security is pretty staggering.

Disturbing piece this, in which a Motley Fool columnist describes a European Commissioner as exhibiting "idiocy" and a being a "joke". Particularly telling was this comment: "IE doesn't give MSFT any competitive advantages at all.", which displays the author's ignorance of how the web works, and indeed, how technology markets in general function.