Being Explicit
A discussion with a friend who works mainly with Java has come to the old case of virtual-by-default vs. final-by-default.
When I come to declare a method, I can decide whether I want derived classes to be able to override it. Java does this by default, which kind of sucks because it opens up a way for people to override code you haven't intended on letting them override, just because you forgot to mark the method as final. C# makes all methods final by default, which kind of sucks, since you can forget to make a method virtual and thus limit the deriving class from doing things it could have done if you had marked the method as virtual.
So why not take a third road? Why not just be constantly explicit about what you want to do? I think all methods declared in C# should be required to have a 'sealed' or 'virtual' (or 'override') modifier on them. This way, you would never be able to get away with not making the decision whether derived classes can override a method or not.
But that's just a thought... :)