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MeanMachine82
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Wincustomize taking money from skin and other authors

April 16, 2005 7:52:11 AM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Is it really moraly right that wincustomize gains money from a subscription fee which allows others in turn to download your work? They earn money by what others do for them. And do you get some kind of earnings for making a skin or perhaps a desktop x widget...NOOOOO you don't. they just put you up on a stinking ranking list. Shame on you Wincustomize! Without such bad companies as yours the world would be a better place to live in. Shame on you wincustomize! For taking all of the money, when the real authers should have a percentage of what you make from subscriptions and other fees.

I hope you have realized that living from others and what they do is something that is not morally right and you should all be condamned to hell!
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Reply #1 April 16, 2005 8:05:37 AM
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Always one.
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Reply #2 April 16, 2005 8:20:15 AM
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MeanMachine82,

You can always start your own web site and sell your skins from there.
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Reply #3 April 16, 2005 8:21:19 AM
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For taking all of the money, when the real authers should have a percentage of what you make from subscriptions and other fees.


It's an act of free will. No-one is placing a gun to their heads forcing them to contribute.

If they weren't getting something out of it, they wouldn't do it. Psych 101.
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Reply #4 April 16, 2005 8:31:15 AM
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Ok, then I suppose that this guy doesn't want the site to have servers or even be updated at all. Sigh...
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Reply #5 April 16, 2005 8:38:33 AM
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The subscription money is to help defray the enormous bandwidth cost, and also helps with buying new servers. Noone is 'making money' off the skinners. Everyone benefits..... even the leeches.
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Reply #6 April 16, 2005 8:47:21 AM
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Oh, good grief
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Reply #7 April 16, 2005 9:19:30 AM
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Citizen MeanMachine82 ...you've just hit your download limit, haven't you?

And all those people who actually paid for subscriptions to this site paid for your access to it....all 102 meg of it.

You should be thanking them.

Oh...and particularly you should be thanking Stardock as they paid directly for approx 80 meg of your download.

Now, before this becomes yet another 'troll-feed'...time to call it a day...

BTW...do the 'right thing' and purchase a subscription.  Help to pay to make these skinners' works available to one and all, grateful and mean alike...

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Reply #8 April 16, 2005 9:37:39 AM
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If they weren't getting something out of it, they wouldn't do it. Psych 101.


errr, yup!

I get more out of skinning then you could imagine. You see it from the most extreme selfish perspective. This is a community, not a competition full of backstabbing. Although competitions are fun.
If you can't appreciate the fact that others enjoy sharing for free and donating to keep the site that offers YOU the opportunity to become well known all over the world as a positive, you really need a wake up call. Try getting traffic to your site, if you have one.
I spent a year totally committed to my golf game in hopes of making a career from it. After a year 75% of the fun was gone.
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