[jmull]

Yeah that’s the author’s argument. That’s why I called it stupid.

The idea of forestalling competition by buying non-competitors doesn’t make any sense at all. NYT would have to buy all kinds of things, spending orders of magnitudes more money than they have.

I have a non-business game… is there any question why the NYT isn’t offerings me low-seven figures for it?

[ghayes]

Also, NYTimes could have cloned Wordle without paying Wardle, and that probably would have been worse for everyone involved.