Dare Obasanjo is a developer and technical evangelist for Microsoft Web Services; so it's not too surprising that his understanding of the application of Open S

Dare Obasanjo is a developer and technical evangelist for Microsoft Web Services; so it's not too surprising that his understanding of the application of Open Source in the rest of the world is a bit skewed. That said he is correct in that Open Source is not conducive to big product companies like Microsoft. That you can use open source infrastructure to build a platform for big product services (Google, Red Hat, Facebook, etc.) is not really in question at this point. As for the World of Goo guys. My take is that the gaming industry is going through a similar transition as the music industry although they do have some options that don't make sense for the music industry; like selling subscription based participation in multiplayer universes. Actually, a musical equivalent to World of Warcraft would be awesome; I just have a hard time picturing how it would work or if Myspace is already inhabiting that space sufficiently to prevent competition. If the World of Goo guys want to maximize their take from this game they should make the physical package more attractive to gamers; throw a t-shirt with game artwork into the box, or some special trading cards or something to make the tangible possession of the game worthwhile. Either that or have the standalone version be an ad for their subscription service. Piracy sucks for creators; it really hurts to see other people taking your hard work and using it without giving you any return. But that is the current reality and suppressing IP piracy effectively would have negative social consequences and impacts that nobody in their right mind wants; like outlawing general purpose programmable computers. But facing up to that reality is something that anybody who wants to achieve any level of success in the content industries has to do.