How Good is Boonex's word?

Many months ago we had a large uproar in regards to stolen modifications being resold over on the Unity site an other things that were uncovered.  At that time, Boonex admitted the ability to moderate the Expertzzz site as it simply lacked the technology for it and would require to many upgrades to get it under control.  The solution, close expertzzz.com, which has basically happened now, and open a new Market here on Unity.

This new "Market" was supposed to, as we were told:

1. Get rid of the scammers
2. Protect the Modders/Developers from having our work stolen
3. Protect those who are purchasing the Modifications/Templates/Plugins in the Unity Market

What we have seen:

1. Stolen Mods Posted
2. Stolen Mods allowed to stay up
3. Modders paying $20 a month or $120 a year to be able to post mods.
4. Additional fees to get a Modification/Template/Plug-In "Certified"

The only thing that we, the coders/developers/designers are seeing is:

1. Boonex lining their pockets with fees from us.
2. Our hard work being stolen and listed right next to ours and Boonex getting paid for that too by the theifs.

In the end, I and many others, see absolutely no benefit to us in this new system.  I have held off on posting any of my work on the new Unity Market until such time as it becomes evident that what happened on Expertzzz.com does not happen on Unity.  I am thrilled that I have taken that hard line and protected my work.  I have seen good sales via word of mouth and demoing of my work to the members of Unity and been able to avoid the theft many of you are going through.

With this in mind, don't think I'm abandoning my fellow coders/developers/designers.  I am backing you up 100% in this endeavor and will handle things in this way as it appears that Boonex can not seem to figure out a way to keep their word on the promises they made us:

I will still provide support to the members of Unity.  This will NOT be done in a public manner. 

I will refer my clients/customers to those who have built a reputation of fair work for fair pay.  I have already sent out a few referrals.  When I refer to you I will send you an e-mail with the member name who is looking for help and let you know what my experience with them has been.

I will NOT post any coding/development/design work myself in the Market, Blogs and/or Forums of Unity.

I will limit the public support that is given out by me in regards to D6 and D7.

What is the goal?

That Boonex takes note.  There are members of Unity who have been around alot longer than I have who work damn hard everyday to help out this community.  These members use their own personal imagination, skills, experience and wisdom to help develop Dolphin into the amazing product it is today and they deserve the basic respect they are given.  Boonex is located in Australia, the vast majority of these Good Members are NOT in Australia.  The policy that Boonex insulted us with in the blog posts in regards to this issue is despicable to say the least and as such they can begin to pay people to provide the free support that we, the coders/developers/designers have been giving out for years.

Pay attention Andrew:  I'm not the biggest support giver here, but this is complete and total bullshit that you have just told these guys that do give out the major support around here that they either allow their stuff to be stolen or leave.  The last time we had a small strike on Unity (only a couple months ago) it caused a larger load on the Agents and complaints from the Agents were forthcoming.  I'm not calling this a strike yet, I'm calling it a stand.  The Agents get paid to provide support, and then they give a very limited support level at that.  The members do NOT get paid to give support and we the members handle the vast majority of it.

Unity is supposed to be a community.  A community is only as good as those who govern it.  As the governing body of Unity you have chosen to basically crap on your people and say you don't give a rat's behind about us.  Well, then why should we support you?  Please tell us why we should run your software?  Why should we run our test servers on our dimes to help your end users?  Why should we post fixes to bugs that exist in the software?  Why should we help out with Bug Reports getting into Trac?  Why should we explain so many things to those who pay you when you won't give us this basic human respect.

In the end I'm an asshole and I know it.  I'm also the one who will stand up when a wrong is done and yell the loudest.  Am I pissed, you damn skippy right I am.  You have insulted every single honest member of those software project and told them you only care about the dollar that ends up in your pocket.  You have told them that if they want a stolen item down and to be protected they can take it to court.  Guess what?  Your in Australia, you don't have to obey any court order from anywhere except Australia.  The vast majority of these guys really have no true access to the courts in Australia and you do have an obligation to back up those who pay you for the right to list items for sale.

It's truly time for all to band together and that we stand up for what is right.  We have basic human rights and Boonex has no rights to trample them.