“Even a tiny fee per Windows XP license would have yielded him a hefty payday over the years. “
They would have never agreed to any per license fee, they would have simply used a different picture.
Yup, this is not a case of loosing a winning lottery ticket.
Pretty nature pictures are a dime a dozen.
Instead of griping about "lost" money, he should be enjoying whatever publicity he can get from his picture being selected to advance his name brand.
No he looks like just a whiner.
Exactly. I’m tired of this argument. The guy who designed the Rolling Stones logo mopes over the same thing.
You get paid well for your work—and whatever level you agree to is being paid well—and you should honor your contract.
Solid, warm colors allow me to id the pc (yeah, KVM with 3/4 ports connected...), and quickly find what I need.
Getting rid of the standard issue wallpaper is one of the first things I do.
YMMV.
i thought sol immediately - this guy needs to move on in life
For the kind of money he is THINKING that he would have gotten, Microsft would have used a different picture.
Correct. If he spends more than a minute thinking he got ripped off he's an idiot.
Exactly.
A very juvenile premise here.
Microsoft and Gates were always barracudas.
Let's see... at 1c royalty per copy,
$10,000,000
Yowza!