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Hi, Serge! >>I have only said that nobody can put all of my 'Free Toys' on a CD-ROM and make >>money with this work. 1. First, my apologies: I jumped in not knowing anything about CD-ROM or anything else. My mistake. I just read a spagetti of negative answers and got an impression that you are obsessed with the number of downloads, so I decided to put some humor on this situation. >> If you consider that do not allowing somebody to >>use copyrighted material equivalent to commercial package without paying some >>royalties is to be dumb, I am dumb ! 2. Second, I do have negative comments on your Free uploads, so if you are not interested you can skip to the end of the message, where I bring my apologies again. 3. Now, negatives: I, personally, don't have a problem with you uploading Free IPASes – I remember TEX – and I understand Knuth, I admired FractInt and its creators, but I also like Dostoevsky. This very smart writer said once: " All the happiness of all mankind does not worth a single tear of a baby" – he meant, that no matter how good for everybody your activity is – it does not worth it if it HURTS even one person. I downloaded only one your IPAS: PMATH – it suspiciously reminded me about another one I saw 3 months ago – MESHER. Mesher was programmed by some French guy, I don't remember his name, but definitely it was intended for sale and , perhaps, ot had to repay for compiler, money invested and time taken away from the family and friends. You KILLED all that. Back in Russia, what you did (selling below real COST) would be called "DUMPING" and in some civilized contries it is prohibited (I don't know about States). DUMPING means UNFAIR COMPETITION, it means you did invest something, but you sell below it, as dumb as it is. It does not proves that you are more effective programmer (because I can't compare your COST to the french guy cost), it just DRIVES HIM AWAY from 3DS development. Imagine, you will continue posting IPASes for free – in very short time you can drive away everybody. And the same people, who praised you, when they realize, that all smart developers ARE GONE and that all new plug-in IDEAS are now somewhere in SoftImage, Alias, LightWave or whatever; the very same people will damn you… All that is hypotetical and pessimistic, because there are IPASes you can not reproduce that easily, so you will not be able to afford selling them for free. More, as long as you post TOYS, I am 100% with you, and the only complain I have right now is PMATH !!! But, please, remember: "all happiness" < "one tear". You are not dumb, so you should understand. Again, my apologies, I didn't understand your motives, Alex, Video International