I haven't seen any politics in this thread. Are you referring to my mention of BP? If so, that's a pretty huge stretch, as there's no indication of what my opinion on the matter is, just using the facts of that affair as an example.

As for the concern that the thread could get ugly, I trust the moderators to delete any personal attacks, threats, libelous statements, etc, just as they have done in the past. Considering that my comment that lightly alluded to the possibility of forum plants, was quickly followed by two other posters chiming in that they had the same idea, this is hardly an artificial diversion of the thread.

Add to that that the two commenters getting the most lip from Entourage supporters actually turned out to be correct: jcase that Entourage was violating GPL, and myself that there was a nonzero number of Entourage employees posting here who were not identified as such.