Yes, I was aware of that quote. Baio's article is (intentionally?) vague on when he offered to license the art. Once you cross a certain threshold, emotions tak

Yes, I was aware of that quote. Baio's article is (intentionally?) vague on when he offered to license the art. Once you cross a certain threshold, emotions take over and the artist might have just felt violated and decided to "take his ball and go home". If he offered to license after a few months of saying "fuck you" (from the artist's perspective), it is easy to imagine a post-fact justification like the above to deny a license. Even if Baio's first respnse itself offered to license, at the very least the "happier arrangement" would have been that $32.5k would have still been in Baio's pocket. In the absence of information about when Baio offered to license, I'd remain unconvinced that no licensing deal would have been possible.