Respect for others work

This is an english translation from the magazine Slainte.

HJAO och ZHAO, Side by side

At the moment with the Pirate Bay trial copyright is put to it's test. I can understand when you see a bad sexgen bed, and make your own copy add your own animations. I can understand when you hear a great Rammstein song and like to play that for your sim neighbours. I can't understand when you get a free product from Ziggy with the only demand to change and sell is that you give your customers the same right, to change and sell, instead chooses to stop them from this.

I have been the subject of a fraud like this, Hunney Jewell, she made some small changes to Ziggy's ZHAO-II and packaged this with some free animations. Configured this for male and female avatars. Good work, well worth the 10 lindens she charge for it, if it wasn't for that she at the same time take away my rights as customer. Her version i can't no longer change, I can't give away. My rights are totally revoked. When I got my HJAO i told her I couldn't change the scripts, she claimed I had not bought this, and demanded that I pay her an extra 10000 lindens. With regards that she are not allowed to spread the program based on ZHAO and Franimation with out the code, it's quite rude to demand this. Sadly she don't seam to care about her customers at all and tried to sell this to onkowing animators. ZHAO is a good product, please get it and give Ziggy some tips for making it. But make sure to spread how Hunney uses other peoples work to scam for money. Her acts is against all ideals that open source stands for. If you find any product based on HJAO, send me an IM I'm intressted in knowing how many she fooled to pay the outrageous 10.000 lindens.

/Nadine Nozaki

What VAT?

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Originally uploaded by Nadine Nozaki

The new EU-VAT fee Linden Labs added don't make sense to me. I try to understand what they do and how that relates to Swedish, European law.

According to "skatteverket" an foreign comapny may register from swedish taxes, get a swedish tax registration and sell to us as any other swedish company. That is they have to give prices including VAT to customer can't list there prices excluding VAT to customers. That can choose on only register in one EU country and pay the VAT for that country all over Europe is they like.

If they don't register in Sweden I'm as customer are responsible to pay VAT. I do that bu talking to "skatteverket". The mandatory take out of taxes in the way Linden now have chosen is probably not legal in Sweden. (How ever I'm not a lawyer, don't take my word for it.) Also this make me protected from Swedish "consumers rights" laws. That are no longer selling at US servire that are selling a service in Sweden. If this isn't a swedish service it's not up for being taxed, given my reading of the information on "skatteverket".

Something here have to change for the Lindens to follow Swedish law, something that have them self choosen to do. And it's OK for them to list different prices to different countries, BUT THEY HAVE TO LIST IT INCLUDING TAXES if they are to take out the TAX.