The sad truth is that stakeholders know this perfectly well. But they know they have an important marketshare they can extract money from. They want this money now instead of trickled in through the next 20-50 years from now when they might be dead.

It sucks but it if you think about it that way, it makes sense. Companies die in cashouts all the time.

Hopefully this will finally usher in the year of the linux desktop =P