Reply To: APD Deal: Symphonic Production Bundle by EastWest Sounds – 82% Off for $129

[Peter Woods]

Kirean wrote:

On pseudopop said

I think I’ll wait for a good deal on Spitfire Symphony Orchestra. That currently seems to be the best bang for the buck and have the least of things to complain about.

PETER’S UNPOPULAR OPINION OF THE DAY
I wouldn’t censor it if you guys posted it here, but to be completely open, I don’t feel it represents the best of mankind when I see people being opportunists taking advantage of someone’s mistake / misfortune. It’s certainly not the right thing to do. It’s kind of like stealing because no one is looking.  I feel similarly when people post codes that are only intended for paying subscribers — technically that is software piracy.

Now no companies in this industry are Fortune 500 kind of big, but Spitfire is one of the biggest in its industry and that might lead folks to saying — they’re big who cares. But look at it this way, they’re big enough that you know that the owner is not running their e-commerce site, that it’s an employee. And that employee may be accountable for that glitch and that could hurt that employee’s career.

From giving advice to more than three dozen developers in this field, mostly when they were just starting, I’ve gotten to know a lot of them (not Spitfire) and while I am a user of these products and pay like everybody else, I empathize with anyone and don’t really enjoy seeing people capitalizing on others’ misfortune. When these glitches happen to small developers, they stop everything to control the bleeding. And they get put into a spot  where if they cancel those sales they could be bad-mouthed on the forums and their reputations damaged.

Anyhow, I realize that no one may agree with me (hence the title), but I just wanted to weigh in with how I see things. We can agree to disagree. In the end, we all need to make the decisions that we can live with.

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