On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, syd adams wrote: > Ok I tried to keep out of it ...;) > The issue isn't your work , it's the concern over the Red Bull livery > .... I haven't yet figured out why it's so important to include , > there must be many other paint schemes that could be added instead. > I did 777 British Airways livery with some trepidation , and would > remove it immediately if instructed to do so. > What strikes me the most about these emails is your seemingly arrogant > responses to an issue that some are concerned about: It's not about > your great work , it's about Flightgear overall. > That's just my 2 cents , I'll shut up now :) > I think the problem is that someone got on their high horse and started jerking him around. If I were him, I'd get just as snotty about it - more so probably as I've got a much lower tolerance for that kind of nonsense.
Frankly, the inclusion of the livery is a tempest in a teapot. The flight simulation community has been using commercial liveries without issue for well over a decade. I've NEVER heard of anyone ever being sued by a rights holder over a livery and I've been around this hobby for a VERY long time. There's entirely too much fear mongering going on and it really needs to stop. It has no basis in reality. Never has. Frankly I think people are stirring shit up JUST to stir shit up. If a rights holder contacts "us" about removing a livery, you and I (and whether they'll admit it or not, everyone else) knows that efforts to comply with that request will be very swift indeed. It's not like FlightGear is a commercial product that is leveraging trademarked liveries in order to benefit from them. Companies like Microsoft MUST license that kind of thing because they're selling a product. (They also do it in order to prevent competing products from benefiting from brand identity - it's why Fly! and Fly! II had to call their Cessna 172 the "Trainer 172". MS couldn't beat them technologically, so they jerked them around by arranging exclusive licensing with Textron...but anyway) Jack, I personally greatly enjoy the work you've put into that armed up fling wing of yours. If people give you any crap about the textures, tell 'em to See Figure #1 and ignore 'em. They're just a bunch of bloviating windbags with nothing better to do but run in circles, screaming about crap that'll never happen. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
