Ransomware. Put up a donation page and a meter once X amount has been
donated you release it to the community under a predisclosed license?
Cheers,
Alan.
On Dec 13, 2007 11:18 AM, kim aldis <xsi(at)kim-aldis.co.uk> wrote:
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> I wasn't selling that many TinyThicknesses but I was getting a whole bunch
> of downloads and a lot of good feedback. I suspect – and I'm not levelling
> accusations here at all – that most people were downloading the evaluation
> and finding it lasted long enough to do the job and that was the end of it.
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> For the extrude tool that went out for testing a few months ago, I had I
> think only one person mailed back anything about it at all so it didn't look
> like it was going to be worth while continuing with. Despite the fact that
> people seem to want these tools and always make a lot of noise when I make
> announcements, this is the way it usually seems to go.
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> As always, it raises issues of what this kind of thing does to the XSI
> community and its potential for 3rd party developers. I'm in the, I'm sure,
> enviable situation of not having to care whether I work or not and the money
> isn't particularly important to me but even so I do often wonder why I
> should support the earning capacity of others and get nothing in return.
> After all, the ability to do something faster, does inevitably mean more
> earning potential if one was to take even a slightly mercenary view.
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> The other reason the extrude tool came to a halt was because I found a
> rather nasty limitation in the SDK. I may have found a workaround though so
> I just might resurrect it, just to see what happens.
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> I welcome people's thoughts, though, even radical ones. I think it's an
> important issue. For everyone.
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> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of
> Alan McShane
> Sent: 13 December 2007 04:12
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> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: new curve extrude tool
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> Kim,
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> I've been looking for the tiny thickness tool as well which would have
> helped on a project I've been working on over the past two weeks and was
> ready to buy it. The curve extrude tool also looks really interesting. So,
> I'd be happy to see the tiny thickness tool revived either on its own or as
> a bundle with the curve extrude tool.
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> Keep up the good work,
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> Alan
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