I think the point here is to have some conviction on running under a standard-based umbrella. If you don't like it the conversation continues and you're welcome to create your own mining pool which allows this kind of garbo data. Did you also bitch about browsers decision to maintain standards adherence, or were you totally cool with IE fucking everything up in their interpretations of HTML rendering?
Yes, Luke has views and convictions. This is great. The launch missed these sorely. Whoever is Luke’s marketing counterpart either did not understand the finer points and implications of Luke’s standards, or failed to communicate these. Either way not great.