wwp@yahoogroups.com:
Re: ... and my story...
AYRTON 2008-May-22 22:47:00
PERFECTBostjan
Just perfect.
Thanks for sharing that "bad" story.
I know it happens a lot of times and with lot of guys.
There's a lot of people that still believe in Santa Claus :-(
Best
AYRTON
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Bostjan Burger <#removed#> wrote:
> Let me say my story (as my comment to the "hot" mail from Germany...)... my
> web site is not commercial and I work with it at least 10 hours per day, 7
> days per week. You can imagine that the rest of time is needed to earn for
> living, to run my personal non commercial projects, travel ...e.t.c... I
> have constant applications for my stuff - for free of course. My last
> donation for the cultural institution was for a display of panoramas in
> Royal Society in London last April, yes I was a fool again... as so many
> times before...why? Few years ago one (I won't mention the name) cultural
> institution asked me for my panos with the visualisations of churches and
> castles in Europe. They said that the use will be non commercial and
> educational. I said "o.k. I'll help you as it will free use for visitors and
> with the limited duration of the virtual exhibition with only the couple of
> months". They used my material, and after that I had forgotten about that...
> when I just by coincidence
> found out that their exhibition was part of Culture 2000 (European found
> with the financial support of culture events) and that they received 940.000
> ? (~ 1.35 M US$). As the majority of the presentation was actually my work I
> asked them why they didn't tell me that, and the reply was that the idea
> counts not the "work" (read "my" VR panoramas), which is just trivial (what
> is a pano stiching? - that is realy nothing)... as the project was over and
> I had agreed to participate, my only chance was to not donate any more...
> but I as had mentioned in the beginning, I was fool again recently...I cast
> can't resits to words - "free for visitors", non-commercial, educational,
> for children, e.t.c... :(
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