"tricky to deal with and prohibitively expensive to license from"

- sounds like a lot of business people I've had to deal with in my time.

The point I tried to make is that everything has its price. Was the price to high - or was it just that the offer was too low? How much of the commitment of the wishful purchaser was vocal rather than monetary?

I certainly wouldn't ever let a loud rant from a bunch of folkies with no money tell me how to do business.

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