SHALIK_TEX wrote:I know I'm late chiming in on this topic but does anyone else see the resemblance between Fel's reluctance to using money (royalty payments) received, not on his request but as a nice side effect of something he has created, and Jason's reluctance in Subjugation to use the royalty payments received from the Imperium. Ok, I am reading Subjugation again for the umpteenth time and it just kinda struck me as.....WOW. Fel, though you did not ask for donations they are there. They are there for you to use in whatever you need. There was no stipulations placed on the donations by us your readers. Nor do I think was there ever an expectations by us you readers on how you would use the money. I believe I can speak for everyone when I say if you had your books in printed form, and we could purchase them. Not only would they be on the New York Best Seller list for just sheer volume of sales, but your pocket book would be lined many times over in royalty payments from those sales. You in my opinion are a gifted writer and I am honored to be able to read your work anytime I want. So use the money for what you need and want, and know you are doing it with the donators blessings.. Ok that is all I had to say.
Jason wasn't reluctant to receive royalty payments. He was reluctant to release his ideas with no control over what they would be used for. He might have been reluctant to receive payments in his own name. But he had no reluctance in hiding behind a corporation and receiving his payments that way. Any reluctance on Jason's part about receiving money for inventing was that he could not guarantee that his inventions would not be used to attack humanity or that the Faey wouldn't use it as a weapon against someone else.