I hope visualkinetics' head hasn't been spun around cos of the more serious depth this discusion has dived into! "The release of P4VSkin has actually improved my sales of posavic rather than hindering them...so that kinda blows that theory... " That helps prove the theory about the free market idea not hurting genuinely good items, free or sale. (And possibly helping sales, but that's probably a fluke.) And if the fmg concept had been expanded, it may have included how to handle this kind of situation and not let people like me drift around so much. On the other hand, it's not a good thing that Renderosity has become commerce-oriented to such an extent that a well-meaning person, like Visualkinetics, runs the risk of criticism for simply giving away a free item that they made themselves. Yes, that's why he asked around first, which was smart. This excersice has hopefully educated others too, including myself. Because the next frontier (if we're not there already, or all along) would be people releasing similar freestuff to each other. The only "coin" left valid is the nod of acknowlegement towards the person who thought of it first... and I think the erosion of this acknowlegement is what has people bugged and may cause less and less sharing, free OR for sale; or at least drive up the price of for sale items because they are in effect giving away their idea just by showing a render! and they have to get their costs back somehow... Dmentia, thanks for accepting my apology. I think my ethics are changing because they are still developing - hopefully for the good. Before coming to renderosity my opinion about even copying ideas was that it's very nasty without a line of credit everywhere you can paste it. Then here I witnessed a backlash against demand for credit and I swung in the other direction. Now I'm on the swing back again. Hopefully to find a happy medium.

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a sweet disorder in the dress kindles in clothes a wantoness,
do more bewitch me than when art is too precise in every part