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I think I understand what Allen meant...maybe he just didn't word it quite right?
If I was representing a for sale model here, like my Autocar
...and then Joeblow quickly designed a simpler version
and then competed for attention by offering it for free
...I would be a little perturbed.
I wouldn't be able to do much about it, but it would definitely hurt my sales and my feelings.
But I think I am also a good example of how free models can compliment commercial models.
(I call them "for sale" models...I guess its the same thing?)
But I wouldn't put an Autocar in my Koolwheelz collection, since it makes all the work I did on the 1/12 version redundant and unnecessary.
Yeah, theres no argument from me about sharing a model for free.
I can deal with that...in fact I will be the first to get my free copy.
And if someone wants to put that much work into a model and give it away, then all the more power to them.
Only real issue for me is with someone coming along with a similar model to mine
(same or lesser quality)
and putting it up for sale in the same location
but undercutting my price just to put me out of sales.
I guess a free model could do the same thing in this situation.
I wouldn't do that to someone else, and thats what I was talking about.
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