As a long term Flickr user, I can only say I totally love it. It is simply perfect for what it is and I happily pay for my pro subscription every year, and I would hate to see it change into something else because someone else thought they knew better than me what I needed.
Yahoo may be better maintainers than innovators, but I'd rather have seen posterous acquired by Yahoo and maintained than acquired by Twitter and killed.
I'm sorry, but if people don't get your Star Wars humour, that does not make them stupid. May be they just didn't like Star Wars. And may be somehow they thought that being "in marketing or law or something" is just as worthy an occupation as writing spam filters for google.
I guess the reason they form a community in the short time of an IT event, and "the nerds" are always on the fringe is this same dismissive attitude of superiority that makes people fiercely unattractive and isolated. Men or women.