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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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FiddleHodlHomestead 1y ago

I know nothing about video games, but it sounds like that's the free market showing that a company which gave so much freedom to third-party developers - in that market at that time - couldn't compete it against the companies that chose another approach. Unless the entire industry collapsed as a result? which I guess it didn't, since it sounds like Nintendo made different decisions and had better results -but even if the entire industry had collapsed, then it just meant that people were choosing other ways to use their time and money.

Are you thinking of how this applies to developers in the Nostr ecosystem?

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Toshi 1y ago

As far as I know, the whole industry collapsed and Nintendo single-handedly saved the market by creating a very restrictive policy.

No, I was just wondering what people thought.