>Just about everyone embraced it because it was a kind of punk attitude in the face of stodgy enterprise development schedules. Everyone wanted to seem cool, so

>Just about everyone embraced it because it was a kind of punk attitude in the face of stodgy enterprise development schedules. Everyone wanted to seem cool, so they went whole hog. I think it's 10,000% more likely to be due to so much post-2008 ZIRP money floating around, so why give a shit about quality or consequences? As long as advertising and copyright industries are able to establish themselves as the fundamental arbiters of all content, anything else that happens to us or the companies are broken eggs for the proverbial omelet. The people embracing MFaBT exhibit nothing resembling "punk attitude."