MaximumBunny: Not being open to the possibility of success AND having quality principles is fallacious. This is why I spend more time arguing against people here than agreeing with them. Everyone thinks their inability to see a positive future is evidence for the lack of one. :P
Couldn't have said it better myself. It's sad that some people feel disenfranchised by other companies/entities out there enough that they can't embrace the thought that an idea itself is neither good nor bad (in the context we're speaking of here), but how it is done and what the motivations are behind it can be good or bad or more likely some combination of the two even. People are sometimes inclined to throw the baby out with the bath water, usually out of some form of fear or another.
It's unfortunate because there are a lot of interesting ideas out there that other people or companies have come up with but which have not necessarily tried to maximize the benefit to the end user or customer for example, or more realistically have not tried to find a nice balance point to maximally benefit the customer and the company/organization. But that does not preclude some other entity taking some good ideas and using them as the basis to do something more beneficial to the customer/user and find a better balance point. In a competitive market like the entertainment industry it is that kind of differentiation that can be a huge selling point at helping a company to grow, simply by seeing an opportunity to provide their customers with a competing product/service more finely tuned to their views of what the customer really wants and putting the customer needs higher on the stack than the competitors. It would be a mistake to see these things as black and white issues where it is all one way or the other however. It is always generally some kind of balancing game going on, and trying to provide something that takes an idea and improves upon it in a more customer friendly way as much as possible can be a big win. Some people can see the possibility of such things happening, and others may or may not see it but always fear the worst possible scenario based on what their own past experiences and perceptions have been, perhaps thinking that is the only way that does actually exist.
Sadly, even if the future does have positive evidence some people will always look for the negative aspects of it if there are any, or continue to forsee how the negative is yet to come... :)