Quote - *So, out of current 10,584 current Poser freebies, looks like at least some 7000 don't require a purchase of another product.

*It has to be said that of those 7000 items at least 75% is substandard quality and pretty much unusable by most of us. That leaves us with 1750 items, still impressive, but...... over 75% of those items can only be used for personal use (which makes it hard to use, since at times I'm doing non personal work and I can't keep track of every license, so I just let it be), so I'm suddenly down to 438 items I could use if I wanted. Now of those 438 items at least 90% is underwear and such, in which I have no interest at all, so in the end I'm left with 50 items or so and that's about the number of free items I've downloaded here.

Even though there are over 10,584 Poser Freebies, I've only downloaded about 50 of them, the rest is to me worthless.... stuff of substandard quality, for personal use only or items I would never use. Going through my runtime folders (12Gb), not even 10% is free stuff and most of it came from CP (the animals) and some from DAZ and only little from all the other places. 

I guess I'm not the only one who's in the same boat, otherwise no merchant would ever sell anything anymore.

 

Very true, I don't make much use of a large number of freebies myself.
However, I was answering Penguinisto's claim that most freeebies won't work without purchasing something else besides the basic program.
Well, they may not be what we want, but great many do work without acquiring other things.

We're all in the same boat, if we want something of good quality or to our specs, and no limitations to copyright, we either have to pay for it, or make it ourselves.
shrug that's just life.  

I don't particularly believe that myself, or anyone else should be getting results of someone else's hard work for free. If I do, I consider it a gift and a bonus.  Most poser models available for purchase are so cheap, that the authors would have to sell between 500-1000 models to cover the cost of their time alone, and would have to sell about three tiomes that many to turn some sort of a profit that would put them into the 'wealthy' category. I doubt each merchant selld more then 20-50 copies of their product. Perhaps up to a few hundred for the more popular ones.

Then there's the big bad 'unspoken' which is the fact that many of the more desired models are soon pirated and downloaded in few hundred or more copies... 

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