People just don't like paying for intangible things, so the only way to pay for the internet is clickz/eyeballz. And OUTRGE! clickz/eyeballz are the cheapest and easiest.
The irony of course is that this was posted on a mailing list (so clicks are meaningless) by a developer of free software who has to spend his time working around these bugs that Intel caused. He has every right to be outraged and vent all he wants. He is actually doing the hard work while you watch kitten videos and chuckle-memes.