Been on the cards for a while but I don't see it as a bad thing. Sony will surely be able to develop the cameras further than KM were able too. To me it is a positive thing for the photographer - ensures the future of KM mount slr's and ensures they will be developed as they truly deserve to be. A little nostalgia for the brand perhaps - but I would rather see their quality and unique features developed into bigger and better DSLR's than KM were ever going to be able to do.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html