Ladies and Gentlemen of the Moderators and Admins, allow us to state herein formally that we, the constituents of XFX3d (there are more of us than merely Dodger, and he is only one representative of the organization, among four), believe that Yarp has presented a personal attack and launched a seperate smear campaign because the ability to freely use tools people already have available reduces the usefulness of his P3DO Fxplorer program, and thus reduces the likelihood that people will download it, and, further, that the free program is used as a promotion for the paid version of the program which includes additional functionality, and that his claims that he is being attacked in some way by the sharing of information is a ploy to attempt to divert attention away with this information being shared, at the very least. Thus it is our considered opinion that his smear campaign in another thread and his disparagement of the free sharing of information, something that is generally assumed to be commonplace in the market, is motivated by the potential for personal gain and the potential threat to that that the breaking of a perceived monopoly on the ability to perform such conversions represents. Further, let it be stated that while xfx3d may, in fact, gain from this information in some way at some point in the future (though we do not yet know how), it is generally considered not only acceptable, but laudable to give aaway information freely in hope of potential future gain (as represented by the existence of websites such as Google, Yahoo!, industries such as Television, DAZ3d's free 'tellware' sharing of the DAZ Studio program and, in fact, Yarp's own free version of P3DO Fxplorer, and that all such gifts to the community, regardless of motive, should be applauded. However, conversely, launching an attack and smear campaign against someone's person for such free sharing of information is not something that we at XFX3d condone or accept as civilised behavior. And finally, and further for the record, let it be stated formally that while Dodger requested the information, he was not, in fact, the one who actually mailed Yarp to ask (though he was the one who replied pointing out to Yarp that since he had figured it out on his own --he does all of our development-- it was going to become public knowledge, and that his apparent goal of keeping it a secret backfired).

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