@peter it then becomes a game of semantics - the software wasn't used to make money, i did not offer people to come over to pay for my services to take their mocap. The software was used to create a file. The file made money. - not challenging you per se' all these years working with the business guys in music just showed me how both sides think.
in a technical sense - ms owns the product that translates data, it does not own the data it outputs. if the data were ported to bvh, ms does not own the bvh tag or it's copyright. If a language translator demo taught me how to say yes in french, it could not restrict my right to say yes in french there after - but it can restrict my right in opening a shop that translates words for other people for a fee.
in a neutral view, the motion capture system should have never allowed the output of files if we couldn't do as we please with our ideas in our files.
in a real - street - ghetto view- you should have never made it so easy for me and tempted me lol.
besides, me personally i keyframe everything -halo over head-
Edt - I think they put that there for the major game /movie maker corporations that set up hundreds of stations using betaware, and make millions without any intention to compensate microsoft. - it's worth sending feds to a labor factory under paying and over working employees and using every free software they can get. Its those guys that cause these blanket restrictions imo.
in that perspective, I say thank you microsoft for allowing out put to the little guys - they could have made it a proprietary format that would cost thousands of dollars to unlock, and cut us out.
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12 Years Ago by
planetstardragon