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Originally Posted by Mazin
They are not donating $2 625 000 a year to FIRST. That is simply a ridiculous calculation.
I am not complaining about the amount of money involved. $3500 can seem like a small amount to some, while $150 can be too much for some. "At that price I don't think anyone has an excuse to pirate the software" is a bit silly. Look at how many teens spend a few thousand on a car. Meanwhile, I try not to spend money at all on "intellectual property."
Most of the questions here about this issue were about licenses. Who owns the licenses? Can I take them home? What about installing it on the computers in the shop? We don't have enough licenses to put on all the computers we use, what do we do? Is it OK if I use it for things besides FIRST? I don't remember anybody in this thread asking about an alternative to spending $X amount of money.
If you weren't stuck with commercial software to begin with, then you wouldn't be stuck with these problems. Say what you want about Blender's UI, but to me Max's UI is no better. Just more familiar.
Setsanto, your shop teacher is probably right, and that there's nothing to worry about from violating the license. But, on the other hand, you could learn Blender (or [insert free software name]) and not have to worry. Your choice, really.
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Chances are they wouldn't have gotten caught until they posted here, in which case Autodesk probably still doesn't care enough, and if they do they are only going to subpoena ChiefDelphi for the IP addresses of the posts in this topic and go after the school and cutting off licenses or filing a lawsuit [option b is very very unlikely but greedy companies do not see it as a "return in their investment down the road"].
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Originally Posted by fireball3004
You already know I'm not for pirating 3DS MAX, but I love philosophy and I think the argument is over tangible vs. intangible. If you take a candy bar, you keep someone else from eating it who did some work for it. If you pirate software you would otherwise be unable to afford, the company doesn't lose money because you would never have been able to afford a license, and your not stopping anyone else from using that software. What's more it's for educational purposes of teaching students, which in many cases will just increase the number of people wanting and capable of using the software which might actually help the company, though granted a lot of them might pirate as well. Money is lost mainly through other businesses that should buy the software, but don't. I don't follow laws because they are laws, I follow laws because they are good for society and maintain trust.
For all additional references, even if you don't agree and think pirating is fine, please don't post it on a forum with lots of people well connected to the software with the ability to both notify the company and competition you are using it to enter... it's just not a good idea.
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Companies, if they were serious about customers, would breed the young ones and corrupt them to use their software. What I mean by that is that they would give FREE FULL versions or even EDU versions to individuals, etc. and just have the "You can't make profit from your animations" deal as one of the few TOS. What this will do, is give EVERYONE access to the software. Than when people want to make animations [for profit] they would purchase this software for the wallet killing price it currently is [if it doesn't grow].
So by this time the people that use program X are brainwashed and are experts so that when they hop from company A to B they can [provided they are a beast at what they do] get the company to switch or buy a few licenses of program X so that work gets done faster for said person.
-morpheous
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