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<blockquote data-quote="JohnRTroy" data-source="post: 4148066" data-attributes="member: 2732">You are making the same &quot;proof by inference&quot; mistake with your third statement, saying the executives are ignoring facts, compounding it by calling them &quot;out of touch&quot; and that they are &quot;ignoring facts&quot;.I have a lot of criticism towards the attitude than anybody who disagrees with ones viewpoint is &quot;out of touch&quot;.&nbsp; I heard a lot of that during the dot-com boom and their statements later turned out to be fatal.&nbsp; I still think a lot of people who push for free and open content are ignoring some basic economic realities that have existed for hundreds of years, and that advertising alone can't pay for everything.&nbsp; To be honest, most of us are just armchair analysts here.&nbsp; I think Chris Pramas said it best when he pointed out a lot of the pro-OGL people have been making a lot of conjecture without looking at things from a neutral point of view and a critical eye.&nbsp; It's too easy to fall into the viewpoint that ones personal view is the only correct one, that's why I think one should always look at it from the other side's point of view and &quot;only by understanding our opponent's argument can we understand our own&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JohnRTroy, post: 4148066, member: 2732"] You are making the same "proof by inference" mistake with your third statement, saying the executives are ignoring facts, compounding it by calling them "out of touch" and that they are "ignoring facts". I have a lot of criticism towards the attitude than anybody who disagrees with ones viewpoint is "out of touch". I heard a lot of that during the dot-com boom and their statements later turned out to be fatal. I still think a lot of people who push for free and open content are ignoring some basic economic realities that have existed for hundreds of years, and that advertising alone can't pay for everything. To be honest, most of us are just armchair analysts here. I think Chris Pramas said it best when he pointed out a lot of the pro-OGL people have been making a lot of conjecture without looking at things from a neutral point of view and a critical eye. It's too easy to fall into the viewpoint that ones personal view is the only correct one, that's why I think one should always look at it from the other side's point of view and "only by understanding our opponent's argument can we understand our own". [/QUOTE]

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