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I know that there are a lot of free market advocates among Bitcoiners. I would guess easily more than 90%. Maybe even more than 99%.

But do you know this quote?

"Atari collapsed because they gave too much freedom to third-party developers and the market was swamped with rubbish games." - Hiroshi Yamauchi, Nintendo President.

By limiting what developers could do and setting up certain rules Nintendo increased the quality of their games.

Something to think about.
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nout 1y ago

Free market was the fact that Atari did it one way and Nintendo could do it another way while people could freely choose between them.

It's true that restrictions breed creativity...

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Toshi 1y ago

True. But one of the rules of Nintendo was exclusive licenses for specific games for Nintendo, if the developers wanted to develop for the NES.

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nout 1y ago

Yeah, it's a good point and I would be interested what other folks think here, but to me what Nintendo did still sounds like a fair game.