John,
Your point is taken.
I really don’t take it personnal when an affiliate program or casino chooses to compete head to head with me by creating portals. Nor do I have any feelings regarding affiliates creating their own casinos. The choices I make depend on how it effects my income, as I am sure are yours.
As an affiliate program or casino you can create a rule in your T&C forbidding your affiliates from owning thier own casinos. I, on the other hand, can only create a personal rule that stops me from doing business with programs that willing compete against me by creating portals, stealing traffic by redirects, shaving, spamming, poor customer service, or their general lack of ethics.