Do we as in industry work together?

[Mister X]

Well sending traffic to another program isn't exactly working together. It's more like you're working and they're working and you happen to have an intersection of interests where something they do fits with something you do.

That said, a lot of people in the industry are quite willing to help others and work with them to improve sales, etc. Of course there are also a lot who are more interested in backstabbing and spreading rumours.

As a general rule I would say that "as an industry" we do not work together or even come close to it. All you have to do is look at the Acacia situation. Only a tiny segment of the industry has done anything to support it. Another group has caved in and paid licensing fees. The majority (myself included) has just sat back and waited for results.

Of course I don't think that is much different in any so-called mainstream industry either. I don't think most industries ever really "work together" in any real meaningful way. After all they are all competing for the same dollar. But most of them do at least have a trade association of some sort which we don't. And there are some industries which have very powerful voices in law-making, etc. Our industry basically has nothing like that at all.