Originally Posted by Tekkub
The point being, WM never did seek permission, and they still don't. They just leech addons from any source they can find and hope that the owners of those sites don't notice.
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That isn't wholely true. That may have been some of their practice early on when they were ignorant of how much their actions were angering their posterity, but that isn't how they've behaved most recently. Their behavior early on gave them a bad rap, and after they couldn't get anything legitimately even though they were trying, their response in some fashion was, "Well, we've been getting by as is, so why change it now? It isn't like we have much of a choice. No one's going to let us do this legitimately now." So, now it's been changed for them, and they can't do it either way.
Really, we're caught in a bad catch 22: if WM would be willing to behave themselves, everyone would be more likely to invite them to the playground; if everyone would invite WM to the playground, WM would quit misbehaving. I think there should be accountability on both sides to work out a compromise. Unfortunately, it looks like this situation has progressed way beyond that, and we're really just experiencing the fall-out at this point. Too many toes have been stepped on, and nobody wants to play nice anymore.