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RMS-Chef · #1 04-04-2005, 03:18 AM

We all should know about the whole Ravio situation. The false pretenses that their styles were sold on as well as the flat out thievery that took place.

I have converted 3 of my Ravio styles over to vB3 (RavioBlue, neXusBlue & Emerge) for my personal use. Although due to my limited skills, they are not a 100% conversion but still very nice looking skins and I would say about 80%-90% of the original vB2 versions. I had some issues mostly getting the postbits to look exactly the same so I made some compromises but I think they are still great looking. Since then, I have had a couple of my buddies ask to purchase the conversions from me.

I will sell these to my friends and people who know me due to the way Ravio ended up doing things although I know it's not entirely correct to do so.

So, my question is this. What do you folks think about this, ethics wise. Do you think that if I started advertising that the average person would freak out and attempt to exile and banish me due to my actions? When I purchased the styles it was stated clearly that I was purchasing a vB2 style and that as soon as vB3 went Gold that I would have a vB3 version available for download. And lets not even go into how many thousands of dollars were flat out stolen for uncompleted contract work by Ravio.

Now, I am an adult and I know at face value it would not be entirely legal but under the circumstances at hand how bad is it to sell my conversions?

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