Colin, isn't the idea of the Nash Equilibrium when applied to economics, that unlike the old "do what you do for yourself" model and it will help the marketplace ... that it is replaced by "do what you do for yourself AND for others" turns out to be best for everyone in the marketplace?
The BabeNet thing sounds like it could be a bad thing if it is mishandled. I know the the YNP model from PMB has it so that if someone joins from PMB and later from someone's YNP (or visa versa) the programming catches it and the member gets an automatic refund keeping chargebacks down. (At least that's the way I recall Bill explaining it to me three years back.) So if Babenet does similiarly, it might not be bad at least in THAT respect. However ....
If I'm sending traffic to what I think is five different sites, and they are only five different front ends, I am wasting my traffic and putting too much into the same basket. Worse, as Mike says, I might not even know it is the same basket, and that truely does suck!
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