visualkinetics opened this issue on Nov 08, 2001 ยท 55 posts
Jim Burton posted Sat, 10 November 2001 at 10:26 AM
Nerd- I felt exactly like you do. It is sort of a tough call, but I also question the purpose of Free Stuff items that duplicate low-priced, for-sale items. There is so much to be done that doesn't duplicate any existing item, gee, I've got thousands of things in my mind, I'll never even get half of them done. I'm going have a free item out in a month or two that duplicates some commerical for-sale items in a way, and these items are a mainstay of a a couple of places, I thought long and hard, the item is similar but different, it is low-poly "for the background", but with a map on it it doesn't look half bad, and it poses just as well as the real thing. I don't think it can be made into the real thing, but I was still and am still worried about the companies getting mad at me.