jamball77 opened this issue on Sep 07, 2001 ยท 48 posts
Questor posted Fri, 07 September 2001 at 10:45 AM
No it's not that people hate capitalism, it's that people hate the thought of some selfish twat making money by selling their free items. I thought that would have been fairly clear by now considering some of the abuse that goes on with people trying to make a fast buck with someone elses hard work. On top of that some free items have no commercial uses because of copyrights that one can't do anything about, such as with certain movie related files or personality related morphs. Other people simply want to continue the tradition of freestuff - like Traveller who gives his morphs freely and only asks that you give characters made with those morphs freely. Just because someone says "You can't make money with MY work" why do you have such a problem with that? If you want to use an item in a commercial render or animation has it occurred to you to ASK rather than just blow off in the forum and slag every person who gives their time, work, effort and money FREE? Has it possibly occurred to you that maybe people just LIKE to be asked and that the larger majority don't want to sell you a commercial license? But oh no, that's too much trouble for you isn't it, to take a few seconds to fire off an email and say, "Thanks for your hard work and free item, by the way I want to make money with it." Too much trouble is it? What a nice thing that is. No wonder there are fewer people who want to give things free these days when this is the kind of reception they can expect. Bugger asking if you can use something, to hell with respecting someone's wishes, sod buying an item to cover your commercial needs. No just slam the free stuff givers because they want something to be left free. To hell with you.