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I'm for the most part with eschwartz on this one. It reminds me of a science research team that needed a powerful computer array, so they bought a bunch of Xboxes and installed Linux. Microsoft sells them at somewhat of a loss because the profit comes in selling games. Nonetheless, Microsoft did not RENT the devices, they SOLD them, and rightfully had no say in what somebody did with them after the fact.
Ditto an ill-fated company called Digital Convergence, who handed out thousands of free CueCat bar code scanners, then complained when people modified them to operate as normal scanners. Sorry guys, once you hand it out it's not yours any more. (The company did not survive their poorly-planned campaign.)
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