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| Dawgz Rule:
Use GIMP. |
| nitrogen_widget:
--- Quote from: Dawgz Rule on April 04, 2015, 05:53:56 am ---Use GIMP. --- End quote --- Or gimpshop if you are that used to the interface. |
| Admiral688:
Most of the original stuff in this hobby comes from the cabinet makers...... If we were audited on our avatars, art and mame setups we would all be doing time in Club Fed :-) |
| ark_ader:
--- Quote from: dkersten on April 04, 2015, 01:47:55 am ---One of the companies here in my little town of Billings (an engineering firm) was using all unlicensed copies of AutoCAD. One disgruntled employee ratted them out and they ended up with $500,000 in fines, plus they had to buy some 50 licenses of AutoCAD. This was 17 years ago now. You can believe what you want to believe, but I have seen companies get hit hard with fines for unlicensed software first hand, and fighting it is a lose/lose situation. I dug pretty deep into the legitimacy of the last letter I got, as well as consulted with our lawyer because I have had fishing letters before that try to scare you into buying licenses and whatnot, but this one was indeed legitimate. You can tell the fishermen to pound sand, but there are some firms you tread a little more lightly around. My company has spent well over a half million in defending against frivolous lawsuits in the past, and when we win, we still lose. I didn't pay these guys a penny, but I sure as hell made sure nobody in the company had any unlicensed software. CYA... I completely hate the idea of paying Adobe nearly $1000 per year to use their software, particularly since I often go a month or more without using photoshop or illustrator. I got by for 7 years on photoshop 5.0, and then for many more on cs3. It sucks I can no longer buy a current version and just own it, and I have a hard time spending $2500 for a 2 year old version that will never get updated again. --- End quote --- I used to manage the IT department's software library for a extremely large and well known corporate division, and the acting head of the time needed a spare large office, so he ordered all the filing cabinets in that office emptied and destroyed. Naturally they did this while I was on holiday, and I found out they sent all the software licenses and disks to the incinerator (we are talking several million dollars worth). So when the compliance auditor came from HQ, there was all sorts of yelling and crying. Solution? I just put a request in for a complete hardware and software upgrade. Heck we were still using windows 3.11 anyway. :laugh2: |
| Skaliwagg:
I shouldn't bother writing this but I will anyways since I just got back to this thread and saw how it has expanded. What I find fascinating in this thread is people’s willingness to find it more than ok to make money off of someone else’s work. Copyright laws aside, who owns what aside, how can you abide by that? Its fine that you don't care about your own work but you really can't see how it would bother someone else? Doesn't matter if it took 5min to 5days, time is money and that is time the seller is profiting on. Do what you want to do but for crying out loud at least realize when it's wrong... --- Quote from: Vigo on April 01, 2015, 05:01:28 pm ---Welcome to the wall. :) --- End quote --- Thanks, yeah I mainly lurk, so much so that I couldn't remember my old login name ::) |
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