It was a strawman.
There's no point arguing that sales can mean quality when Curl never said that they couldn't. He only said they were not equivalent. They aren't. One is subjective, the other objective. After all, many people buy things they later decide is rubbish.
Seems pretty straightforward.
Yes.
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