Well, I haven't pulled my weenie vanity gallery yet, nor the few freebies I've offered, and I don't have any plans to in the immediate future. I am however deeply concerned and am holding off on several items that I was planning to release to the MP. And if I do say so myself, they're pretty good items. What I see going on here distresses me because it's following an all-too-familiar business model: "strategic partnering"; aggressive control of customers use of services and products; maneuvering and manipulating the market to unfair advantage; not being satisfied with a slice of the pie; being unable to tolerate any other presence in the same market space. Sound familiar? I live in Seattle; I'm at ground zero of where this brand of business tactic began to grow out of control. I'm also a dot.com veteran. These developments here sadden me because I know that once a company has embraced the internal management paradigm that makes this behavior possible, it is irreversible. By the time the public is aware of these kinds of behaviors and policies they have become firmly entrenched in the company culture and, while there may be dissenters and good guys on board who disagree with the prosperity consciousness (read:greed) pervading the company, they are quickly and silently dealt with (I was one of these). Now, I know that the PTB on all sides of this arena - at all of the sites/software companies - are watching the forums here and I hope they will take this to heart: Dont be greedy. Play nice and there will be plenty of pie for everybody afterwards. Competition will make you better, dont eliminate it. Everyone has a right to earn a living. Nobody likes a tyrant. If you screw up enough, people will vote with their feet. As all honest women will tell you: Size Matters. If its too big it hurts; too small can be made up for in quality of performance. If you're unfaithful, they'll start shopping around, too.