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Gary Shannon <reb### [at] teleport com> wrote in article
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> Considering the outrageous price tag on commercial art software I would
> happily pay $100 for POV-Ray. Maybe the answer is some kind of
reasonably
> priced MEMBERSHIP in a "POV_Ray organization". Membership would maybe
> entitle you to access to the POV-Ray newsgroups, or maybe a newsletter or
> POV magazine. Or it might be advisable <gasp!> to make POV-Ray
shareware.
> I'd rather pay for what I'm getting and be able to GET IT than to loose
> access to the resources you're providing.
>
> --Gary.
>
$100? Shareware? Nnnnooooo!!! Don't let POV go the same way as everything
else :/ I'm sure (apart from it being the greatest raytracer around) one of
the main reasons it's so popular is because it's freeeeeee! I know a lot
of hard work goes into POV, and perhaps it seems a bit unfair to expect
such a great product to be free... but it's managed before.
If people are suggesting povray should become some old shareware "please
register" thing simply to keep povray.org up, then just scrap povray.org.
What's the big deal?
With so many "fan" sites around on the internet, there would be no problem
with storing files etc. As for the news server, there's always
comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing?...
Another great program, SubSpace, was recently made from freeware to
shareware. Since then, many problems have arisen and it's simply become a
lot less popular. It was only available to buy in the USA and in dollars,
though (like me) many of the players were in Europe. All that's happened
to it now is that most people just get it on warez sites.
Can you really imagine POV available on some warez site?? :(
Would you expect Fractint to be one too?
Matt
> "POV-Ray is free... the internet isn't!"
So what's the problem? ;)
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