Noone has a copyright of the IDEA of MAT poses, No, no one has a copyright on the IDEA at all. However, and this is the point that is getting missed: one merchant is making a free-item that is very similar to another merchant's for-sale item. If I made a tutorial on something and put that up for sale, should I then bash everyone who makes a free tutorial on that same issue? Should you? That's up to you. It depends how seriously you take your Poser income. If this is a "hobby" and your tutorial brings in $10, then, bash if you want. But, when the incomes reaches the hundreds of dollars per month, then I would like to think that, you too, would protect your "investment". If the commercial MAT pose maker is better than this, it'll sell. And this argument is as old as the hills. People download stuff because it's FREE. Which would you rather have: StarOffice (free) or Microsoft Word ($250), assuming you know nothing about either product? If you said Word, for $250, I'm shocked. For a rough comparison: MAT Pose Edit (the free program that everyone talks about) has had 2,294 downloads since Feb 17, 2003. My for-sale program has not even had 1/10 that number of sales. Bad marketing on my part? The other program is "better"? If you say so, but I'm sticking to the "Free products are downloaded more, sometimes to the detriment of for-sale items" theory. there are loads of free seamless textures for sale, and yet I put package after package in free stuff of exactely that Ah, another old as the hills argument. Let me ask you this: did you base your free texture off of a product you saw in the Marketplace? And does your texture look very similar to the one in the Marketplace? On the other hand, I will admit that caleb68 seems to be talented at making programs (at making them for free). I would like to request that he make a version of Dark_Whsiper's "Vicky2 to Vicky 3 Texture Converter". Now, that would be sweet. Or, how about the "QuickConform" program. If he made a version of that for free, that would be cool also. --John

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