Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Clarification of Recent Confusion

chadly opened this issue on Jun 29, 2002 ยท 215 posts


ronknights posted Sun, 30 June 2002 at 6:03 AM

Mehndi, I don't feel "ready for prime time." I'm not ready to try selling something. On the other hand, I did my research, and waited 4 months before I released my first Free Stuff characters. Then I discover that I had unwittingly violated DAZ's current stance on distribution of Tailored clothing. So because I am not ready to sell an item, I can be found in violation of DAZ's policy. However, if I were ready to sell something, it would be ok to violate DAZ policy if I made an exclusive arrangement to sell with them? Perhaps DAZ should rewrite their Tailor policy and clearly state it's ok to make clothes that allow Mike 1 to look like Mike 2 as long as DAZ makes a profit. DAZ still stands to lose some Mike 2 sales. But DAZ is ok with that as long as they make money from another product DAZ sells. Of course, if you push this policy, you'll see that Renderosity and other fine sites will lose merchants or sales. Isn't DAZ in effect helping to kill the "free market"?! Now, I can't help notice that one vital question keeps getting ignored: "Why in hell did DAZ wait 4 months to voice an objection to such a practice? And why didn't DAZ make this policy available for all of us to see?!" I revisited DAZ's FAQ and couldn't find that policy. Besides, if DAZ is interested in keeping us informed, they darned well should have posted that policy here at Renderosity.