While it might have been nice had everyone said FU to Acacia, that simply didnt happen and was rather unrealistic to expect. It's very easy to say that the big guys that have signed agreements are somehow betraying the community when you are not the one sitting here with a potentially massive amount of money hanging over your head - especially if you are a company that would be potentially liable for years past when revenues and profit margins were many times what they are at current levels.
The nature of business and the laws of economics themselves mean that a community is going to be superseded by what is in an individual company's best interests, if it was not that way then we'd have a socialist business community and that would be much worse than the way things are now.
At the end of the day, this is a business, not a charity and not a lifestyle for most people, and they will choose accordingly.
To continue to harp on the fact that they've signed agreements is a waste of time, imo. Now is the time that everyone who hasn't signed an agreement should be assessing the situation realistically and deciding what is best for their own interests.
If it is fighting Acacia, great. If not, then such is life, move on and do what you need to do.
Wasting time mooning over whats past is the biggest waste of time.
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