gleichman <fox1_217@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> On Feb 20, 7:18 am, tussock <sc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > The harder they squeeze, the more will slip through their
fingers.
>
> If you really believed that, you wouldn't care what WotC does because
> to the end user it flatly doesn't matter.
This claim, that "the harder they squeeze, the more will slip through
their fingers", doesn't lead to what you say above.
"gleichman" <fox1_217.nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> "Ben Finney" <bignose+hates-spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:874pc3ia58.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> That doesn't follow. Stating that "the harder they squeeze, the more
> > will slip through their fingers" only points out that they encourage
> > more to escape by squeezing. It doesn't say anything about whether
> > we'd be better off if they didn't squeeze at all.
>
> Read his paragraph before that, where he predicts that they will move
> to other non-WotC systems, etc. etc. and tell me again that it doesn't
> follow.
I don't see how "end users care enough to move to non-WotC systems" is
compatible with your claim that "in that case, to the end user it
flatly doesn't matter".
I understand what he's saying, and I think he's claiming quite the
opposite of what you conclude.
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