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   Paul S Person to michael.stemper@gmail.com   
   Re: Re0 "Why Bob Iger   
   28 Nov 22 08:55:57   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 08:19:30 -0600, "Michael F. Stemper"   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 28/11/2022 00.28, Your Name wrote:   
   >> On 2022-11-28 06:09:37 +0000, Hal Heydt said:   
   >   
   >>> Apple's fondness for the walled garden might be attractive to at   
   >>> leat some people at Disney.   
   >>   
   >> All the streaming services have a "walled garden" and refuse point-blank to   
   share their 'exclusive' content with *anyone* else. It's one of the biggest   
   stupidities there is in the industry since it means people have to subscribe   
   to a bazillion    
   different services just to watch one or two programmes on each one.  X-(   
   >   
   >You need to remember that, from the POV of the people who set up   
   >those walled gardens, that's not a bug, it's a feature.   
      
   Capitalism at its best!   
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   development was the disintegration, under Christian   
   influence, of classical conceptions of the family and   
   of family right."   
      
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