You're right, the reaction to the TOS was something to behold. I think due to the nature of hacking and hackers, most people here hate being told how to do the

You're right, the reaction to the TOS was something to behold. I think due to the nature of hacking and hackers, most people here hate being told how to do their job, especially for what feels to them to be spurious or irrational reasons. I suspect people would have responded better to a more narrow (though perhaps legally more problematic) "no Flash" rule, rather than the legally safer but over-broad "no cross-compiling".