This is what I thought when I first saw xbox media center, which was so much better than anything Microsoft had done in a similar line and fulfilling an obvious

This is what I thought when I first saw xbox media center, which was so much better than anything Microsoft had done in a similar line and fulfilling an obvious need. Not so much that it was embarrassing for the company but that any company that can reasonably hope to inspire people to do free work to make their product better is insane to try to put roadblocks in the way. Also that there are lots of things you could just leave to the community. Build a good api and let the community build the ui and glue.