Huh? Are you complaining about the master skins? Because your argument makes *no* sense...you complain about the economy being bad and having a hard time paying bills, but at the same time you expect people to put hours of tireless effort into a theme and *not* be compensated for it? Bit of hypocrisy there, "I'm low on cash...I should get this stuff for free, you don't need to be compensated for your hard work."

edit: forgot a word, ha.

TitanI9- You are referring to Master Skins (A skinner of that rank can make and sell skins) - Stardock doesn't sell them. The Master skinner does. Are you referring to MyColors?

And by the way, Bebi Bulma is also 100% correct and so is Zubaz. Windowblinds is a program that changes the Windows GUI...and applies skins that people make because they love doing it...

*I* would like a pedicure. (It's like toe-skinning)

Please be here around 1PM.

thanks!

i'll have a pedicure too, but do i get a discount for only having one foot?..... if so i am free between 3 and 4 pm

I don't think Object Desktop's value has dwindled.  In fact, I think it's value has increased, since renewal is now for two years rather than one, but the price is the same.  I really don't know what you're talking about when you say " I can almost appreciate someone wanting to be paid for the windowblind if it's a completed high quality product; but to see Stardock charging for Stardock windowblinds in this economic climate is disappointing."  

Windowblinds is continually being upgraded.  Every new release brings cooler options, and more control over personal application of a windowblind.  I've notice this, and I've only had Object Desktop for a little over a year.  

If what you mean by your comment is the fact that Stardock has been releasing portions of premium skins (i.e., Camouflage Windowblind, which is part of a MyColors Premium Theme for priced at $4.95, and the IconPackager just recently by the same name, for $4.95), I think that's a brilliant business move, and totally catering to the customer.  A premium $20 MyColors theme can now be purchased in portions for those whose purchasing power has shrunk due to the economy -- so for someone who would like to purchase said them from MyColors, but doesn't have $20 for the full theme, can perhaps scrape up enough for just the Windowblind, and find some other free Iconpackager to put together with it.  I think that shows how far Stardock is willing to go to be flexible when it comes to it's customer base.  

I think the hope of Stardock isn't that their products be construed as fixed annual expenses to users, but that it retains as many of its prior customers as it can, being flexible with those who are struggling, and still turn a profit, which is the whole point to being in business.  I'm a dreamer, and I would love to see/live in a society where we all "found our place in the world" doing what we love, making enough from doing what we love to fulfill our daily needs and a little bit left over to do something for others, but that world is not reality.  Business is still business, and I think Stardock is going out of its way to hold on to its customer base and keep the lights on and payroll intact.

Then again...I AM a Stardock addict.  If you aren't, well...you aren't going to find a lot of people here to agree with you.

sorry to break it to y'all... I'm not goin to beauty school... guess I'm... a ... Beauty school... dropout?

Besides, I'm beautiful enough already..

yup, and we all plan to conquer the world with our devious plan to charge for skins but craftily leave one image out of the entire skin,      thereby ripping off the end user and laughing our way to our

private islands with steamer trunks full of easily earned sacks of cash! 

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! !!!

OMG! I didn't know scots wore socks!

..... Enter Obama The saviour of Generation E !

Erk waits ....finger poised

[Just ONE more question about the weather ought to be enough to tip the scales]

Two wrongs dont make a right.

Both parties got us in this mess.