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I think the underlying disagreement/debate is whether or not these initiatives are in good faith. Any implementation of this is going to be imperfect and a motivated person will probably be able to get around this. So the debate, I think, is, if we implement this are we going to incrementally improve it? Or is it just a pretext to point to and say, hey look, this can never work perfectly, so we should ban x, y, and z.
Also it looks like these are retail prices. You can get cost savings by negotiating but I’m sure there’s an NDA required.
Typography, layout, and presentation counts for more than coders such as myself will ever admit publicly :)
I do agree that he could have handled the situation a lot better. But some things are outside his control.