Hi Tom.
My one major issue with this is as I said that Philip's work that he
obviously put much time and trouble into is being so devalued, and is being
so badly curtailed for no reason.
Brian Hartgen could! still sell the game for 20 usd as Philip did as a
stand alone program and! give it away free with leasy if he desired, indeed
it could be a great promo for him.
"Buy Leasy and you get this free game worth 20 usd!"
As I said though, he is just being a bloody minded arse hole with no
respect for what he has purchiced.
No, he is not the first business owner to do this, nor will he be the last,
indeed this is a classic example of what Marx called "the Alienation of
labour" ie, someone who makes or develops or produces something being
utterly debased from the value of that thing, and it is also typical of the
business world that the customers and potential customers have no power in
this dynamic whatsoever, anymore than Philip did the second he signed over
that contract.
You are correct that unfortunately that is that, but I don't think people's
bad feelings towards Brian Hartgen are unjustified, and personally i feel
extremely sorry for Philip to think that his game in the future will have
such profoundly limited availability, sinse I doubt very much anyone will!
buy leasy just for the purposes of playing Q9, and though people might buy
leasy and spend some minutes with the game, I'd be willing to bet that this
won't be half as many as would do so if it were just sold without
restriction.
Okay, end of contributions from me on this matter.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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