#4 Down Goes The Sun

Sun Microsystems, which was champion of open source projects like Java, MySQL, and Open Office, after acquisition by Oracle in April 2009 had to shun its reputation. Larry Ellison made it happen.

By September 2010, most OpenOffice developers had abandoned the project in favor of an Oracle-free version called LibreOffice. Last November, the original author of MySQL, Michael Widenius, accused the database giant of trying to smother his open source project which is yet young.

#3 Facebook's Dilapidating Privacy

In the initial years when Facebook was taking baby steps towards stardom, it was considered to be the most secured private social network in the world.  If you didn't have an email address ending in .edu, not only could you not join in on the fun, you couldn't see anyone else's fun either. And then things changed a bit since 2005, and it got every body and anybody into its folds and risked to compromise with security issues. But as Facebook's privacy protections shrank, its privacy data-use policy swelled to an astounding 9,349 words.

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