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My hybrid #RCV / approval voting ballot of parties involved in FTC v Microsoft: Approve: 1. Consumers 2. FTC 3. Nintendo 4. @MLBPA Borderline; could go either w/approve/oppose: 5. Blizzard 6. The MLB 7. Apple 8. Google Oppose: 9. Activision 10. Sony 11. Microsoft 12. Bobby KotickOn twitter.com
Mood +2 🙂
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What gets confusing is that the parties involved don't necessarily share the same rankings of each other... so, like, when the FTC defends Sony, that's bad, even though I like the FTC. The FTC has a strong enough case on behalf of consumers that they *could* make, but...Permalink On twitter.com
Mood +2 🙂
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...I'm afraid they may've torpedoed their consumer-based case by basing their case on defending Sony instead. Also, I like Nintendo, so when the judge was using "well Nintendo exists" as a point of why the merger might be ok, well, that was frustrating, since I oppose the merger.Permalink On twitter.com
Mood -2 🙁
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If anything Nintendo's existence should be another point *against* the merger, not for it, because they & their fans are going to be harmed by Microsoft's increasing dominance, too. The whole "well Nintendo isn't even competing in the same market as them" argument makes no sense.Permalink On twitter.com
Mood -3 🙁
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anyways, it's def. a confusing time to be simultaneously a Free Software advocate, console warrior defending Nintendo (despite them being proprietary), & socialist generally opposed to capitalism... as Walt Whitman wrote, "I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"Permalink On twitter.com
Mood -1 🙁