In a Down Economy, Is the IT Industry Eating Its Own Young?

SCO's shenanigans, Verisign's redirection of mistyped domain names, and now ISO itself talking about possibly making ISO country and language codes
(like en-US) a royalty-generating item. What do all these have in common? According to LinuxWorld senior editor James Turner, they're all attempts
to turn a quick profit at the expense of the overall health of the IT community and economy.