What's up with all the negative attitude at HN that's being up voted for things that until recently at HN would have been applauded. This announcement is one. Sam altman's exit also had a negative tone. Also fred's post on yahoo also had some BS comment about VCs encouraging patents being up voted.
This is a great idea and people at most should at least have a neutral approach.
edited- I didn't mean this as a comment to Daniel's comment. It was meant for the grandparent