Matthew Bennett <ben### [at] btinternetcom> wrote in article
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> Gary Shannon <reb### [at] teleportcom> wrote in article
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> > Considering the outrageous price tag on commercial art software I would
> > happily pay $100 for POV-Ray.  

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> $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.  

You are right, of course, and I appologize for even THINKING of making
POVRay shareware in my earlier post. 

I think the issue is to keep povray.org alive as a service to POVRay users.
 And I agree that POVRay should remain FREEWARE.  I'm writing my own
tga->avi/mpeg "movie editor" system, and I plan to put it out as FREEWARE. 
I'm writing it because I need it, not to make a profit.  That's how POVRay
got started, and that's how it should continue.

But perhaps there are some other services that povray.org could offer that
would be worth paying for.  The CD-ROMs for example.  

--Gary.

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