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I suppose I'll have to agree to disagree on this one. While I am a big supporter of the open source community, I think there are certain interactions with commercial programs that are ethical and those that are not. BnetD pulled Blizzard's consumers off Bnet and lost potential revenue that way (by providing an avenue to piracy, lost adspace, etc.). I fully support (nonhacking) third party progs that supplement Blizzard's games. And, you'll notice, Blizz hasn't pursued the makers of those programs. Nor is it even banning keys for the use of them.
And I think there's a bit of spin on the way you're portraying competition. Monopolys are big and evil and all, but I don't think blizzard is out of line in wanting to be the only server of its online games. They created the product, created an avenue to use it online (that's free, no less), I think there's nothing wrong with expecting that to be the end of the line. Competition among other games, sure. They're not creating a monopoly in their field (videogames at large), but their specific product, which I think is correct. It's like one juice vendor taking a competitor's product, pouring it into its bottle, and selling it as its own.
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