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Old 07-28-2011, 12:23 PM   #165
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My take is simple - if you don't like their policies don't buy their products. They understand revenue, market share and profit losses, not much else.

I don't like this decision, I won't buy from them in the future.

On the other hand I don't expect everybody else to feel the same way. I also know that many of those people who disagree with me are highly principled and intelligent people. The fact that we disagree on the consequences of this policy does not divide us up into two camps one intelligent and one stupid.

Leave users out of it, they committed no sin in buying a product and if they want to be more pragmatic about a policy change, then you or I - that's their business, they are affected equally by the policy change.

I'm sure they have or will elect to take what they feel is a principled stance on something and you or I will judge them using the same pragmatic reasoning they take today with us, as in; "It's not my fight, I don't see it as being the serious problem you proclaim it to be".

Also, heaping scorn and ridicule, is unproductive, it normally does nothing but entrench people in their current positions, whether right or wrong. I have done it in anger, and looking back, it only served to undermine the argument I was trying to make.

So, my take is, if you feel angry, punish the company, in the most effective, legal and ethical, means available to you. But, by all means avoid making collective judgements about their users/supporters intelligence, ethics, morals etc.

You will be wrong every time.

Ok, I think its time for me to get off my horse

Last edited by fbrII; 07-28-2011 at 12:39 PM. Reason: Just had to make one more point ....
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