I have 3d studio max 4, can I heLp?

[Cyonamie]

big kids? i think more of big mouth peanut, and if ur judging people by age, call me an ignorant annoying kid

[Vengeance]

One thing I find funny about this whole discussion is that people are totally cavalier (don\'t care) about pirating commercial software, while in many cases the SAME people are totally hyper about open source licenses such as the GPL.

Whether it is a pay license or a free license, the violation is the same, and yet everyone is more hyper about the free ones, in which the injured parties have no money to prosecute or sue, saying who is going to sue who.  When even Micro$oft, who have more money than God, doesn\'t sue people who pirate their software.

This should show you why companies worry about compliance if they use open source licenses, and thus, why they don\'t use them.

- Venge

[Bigfoot]

Ive never pirated a Microsoft software before, I bought win98 for 300$ (the upgrade package) from my local computer store and own Both Age of Empires which I bought myself. All my other microsoft software came with the Computers I buy. Then again I wouldnt pirate that crap ^^... then again AoE is a nice game.

I only responded seeing as you mention a \"Someone\" that mentioned GPL/GNU and that was me  

Hmm lets see out of the 30 PC games i own only 2 are pirated \"War Craft 3\" (unplayable on teh net so virtualy usless) and Brood wars the expansion for Starcraft which is also unplayable on Battle.net (i bought Starcraft as my first PC game way back, after playing my friends pre-release hacked version and loving it so much) Warez to me is like try before you buy, if i like it ill buy it... aslong as I can actualy AFFORD it that is and usualy I can. and out of the 5 or 6 graphical programmes i use regulary only adobe and Max are warez... the rest I bought or are freeware.

So im hardly a badass pirate... nor am i cavalier. Just neutral. But Kids warez can have a bad effect so dont do em, just say no to warez but dont be affraid to experiment but know when to stop.

[Princess Aelya]

Originally posted by Cyonamie
big kids? i think more of big mouth peanut, and if ur judging people by age, call me an ignorant annoying kid

i think he was referring more torwards maturity. and his little comment was pretty pointless and immature. so it had nothing to do with you.

[Vengeance]

Bigfoot, believe it or not I wasn\'t actually targeting that comment at you but at the open source community in general.  People are so hyper about PS license, GPL, LGPL, BSD, whatever, when the fact is that they routinely flaunt and ignore other licenses which are commercial.  This is spite of the fact that the only people who really have any ability to enforce their licenses or come after you are the ones with the money--i.e. the commercial ones.

Comes from reading too much slashdot I guess.  :-)

- Venge