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by matsemann 1054 days ago
Why should Shopify be allowed to decide what two other businesses (merchant and OP) willingly do just because they own the platform?

No, they shouldn't have to play whack-a-mole, I'd argue they shouldn't be allowed to.
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lolinder 1054 days ago
What OP did was bypass Shopify entirely for the checkout part of the process, thereby taking away Shopify's revenue for OP's customers. That's not software freedom, that's theft.

Any two businesses are welcome to transact with each other, as long as they're not using resources that belong to a third party who doesn't want to be involved in the transaction.

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Dylan16807 1054 days ago
It's not theft. Calm your horses.

And if shopify actually didn't want to be involved they would just fire those customers.

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