You had an odd "chip-on-your-shoulder" perspective of the world, with these "sticking it to the Man" comments. Canon earned every bit of marketshare they've captured, doing it all on their own, building their system from nothing. They are "the Man" because they've earned it. Sony, on the other hand, went out and bought a system. And in the future, they may just pay Carl Zeiss to make any future lenses, like they have Carl Zeiss make lenses for their digicams. It's the "flash the cash" method of getting ahead, where you don't actually have to do all that much yourself; you just hire someone else to do it for you (ie, Carl Zeiss), or buy someone else's achievements (ie, Minolta's system), and you take all the credit. Sounds like it should be Sony that someone should be "sticking it to".
Sony has a lot of money, and plays rough. They love shoving their own formats down people's throats: Memory Stick (their own flash memory format), ATRAC (their own audio compression format), UMD (their own digital media for PSP) are but a few recent examples. They muscled their way into home video game consoles with their Playstation, driving Sega out of the market and pushing Nintendo to the fringes. And now they're going to muscle their way into DSLR cameras. In a few years, you'll probably be wishing that someone were sticking it to Sony.
