Although it does keep it alive on the forums, Radioshack is looking at the mass-markett profitability of them. The more broad of an audience base they can attract the better for them.

I think they can compromise, do some research and promote the independant forums. Heck they could even steal from us, there are so many ideas and what have you floating around here they would have to do so little R&D on the chassis etc. If they sent a pre-launch pack to the top 20 modders on the forum they would receive a pleothora of knowledge back that would help them articulate the modifications and additional add ons to produce.

My .02 on it.