SoulTaker opened this issue on Apr 19, 2008 ยท 284 posts
Gareee posted Sat, 19 April 2008 at 10:49 AM
People make a big deal abotu commercial use for a good reason,. if they are emulating something else out there, they don;t want to be sued over it.
Personally, I think everyone who has a gripe abotu freebies should email the creators and ask them to stop making anything free for poser at all.
Once all the freebies are gone, no one will have anything to complain about any more, so it'll be a perfect world!
Now back to reality... freebie creators frequently are learning, and doing it in thie rown free time. They probably don;t know poser file structure, they don't know how to make porper file referencing,s and once they do manage to get something out, odds are they won't have the time to revisit it, and fix things people complain about.
There actually have been quit ea large number of freebie creators tht HAVE stopp providing anything new at all, because they didn't want to put up with complaints about this that or the other thing about them in the various forums.
Two old addages come to mind:
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, and Don't shit where you live.
(You can also add "Don't tub on Superman's cape" and "Don't spit into the wind" as well.)
If there's an issue with a freebie you download, and you know how to fix it, instead of whining about it in the forums, fix the damn thing, package it back up, and provide that link to the original creator detailing what you did, so they can update the archive. or STFU.
If you have the time to gripe about something, then you have the time to educate the creator and improve the freebie.
And if you are doing commercial work, then never use freebies, and buy what you need or make it. You are getting paid for th work anyway, and can deduct the costs.
IMHO you have only two rights when you download a freebie:
Thank the creator, and help them improve upon it.
And at the end of the day, you DO get what you pay for when it comes to freebies.
Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.