Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Ruminations on Poser and textures and copyright...

JoeyAristophanes opened this issue on Dec 14, 2003 ยท 62 posts


Phantast posted Mon, 15 December 2003 at 5:25 AM

Just to be pendantic, free stuff is not really a gift at all. It's sharing. That doesn't make it any less valuable. A gift is where I have something and you don't have it; I give it to you, now you have it and I don't. That's a gift. With Poser stuff, I have something and you don't have it; I share it with you, now we both have it. That's not a gift in the usual sense of the word. Which is why comparisons with conventional gift-giving are inapt. I like the idea of sharing; I like the idea of people in the community supporting one another, helping one another. It's something that holds the community together. It sucks that there are so many obstacles (bandwidth costs, etc) that hinder this now. The way to go, it seems to me, is some sort of P2P arrangement to remove the cost from the person who provides the freestuff. Incidentally (to be yet more pedantic, but it's a pertinent point), money is NOT the root of all evil. LOVE OF money is.