It's interesting that they chose the "give no one anything" option, given that having the default music player with the store enabled would likely have given GNOME much more revenue, even at only 25%, than relying on people to know how to activate the store manually. Defaults are king.
Numerous studies have shown that primates will choose to screw over both parties when the other party is perceived as acting unfairly, even though in the end it hurts both of them. This situation sounds like a perfect example of this in action.
Banshee Amazon Store disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 by Canonical (Network World)
Posted Feb 16, 2011 18:57 UTC (Wed) by ewan (subscriber, #5533)
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Of course, there is a reason for that behaviour - while it may hurt in the specific instance, it discourages people from attempting this sort of shake-down in general.