i just want to discuss something with all fellow designers in this thread.
a few minutes ago i found something on another pokerforum i visit frequently. itīs a ftp modding thread which includes a really huge collection of ftp moddings. as far as i know it possibly is the most complete collection available on the net.
obviously most mods of this collection are originary posted in this thread, but i have seen also mods which are from other forums and from the designers websites.
i only can say this for me but iīm a little bit pissed by this collection. pls donīt understand me wrong! this is not against the person who wrote the mentioned thread and build this collection, itīs about this more in general...
i make freebies to get attention by possible customers. many other designers who charge for their work do the same. also i make freebies to work on existing customer relationships. so for me it is an essential part (a must) that my freebies are going together with my name.
as you can see when you look back in this fred or in other forums, i always give credits to the originary designer/poster when i repost mods.
when i started to post in this thread i read all postings so far. i saw two tables which i had made and i saw a deck offered for downloading which is an exakt 1:1 plagiat to a deck i designed. the poster only changed the colors and offered it as his work...
you know what i did? - i throwed away my deck as it was worthless now for me and i did the same with the 2 tables.
jdennis f.e. build a great collection of mods. he wrote instructions and he gave credits to the designers. thatīs absolutely ok for me and i referred to his collection a lot of times.
what is not ok for me is when someone is going to repost my work without giving credits. but this wouldnīt get me to write a post here. what makes me really pissed is to see that this package i found today even includes work which has been downloaded from designers websites. stuff which wasnīt published in a public forum. stuff which was published on a private website which has the goal to initiate traffic to the designers site.
the second thing which makes me pissed is that the threadopener didnīt published his collection over here, since this is the place where he got the most stuff.
i only wanted to steam...
but i will make up my mind about this and i will make some changes for myself and for sure iīm not going to publish freebies anymore the way i did in the past and iīm interested what the other designers which give away freebies or offer stuff on their website for free think about that.