Hookflash wrote:

> I said that PovRay was freeware, whereas 3DS Max is a commercial *product*.
> Whether or not PovRay has "commercial value" is irrelevant to our
> discussion, since PovRay is not being sold as a commercial product.  Also,
> the intellectual property cannot be stolen since it's freely available for
> download.

You understood nothing about intellectual property, then.
What could be stolen is indeed the free-ness of POV-Ray.  If someone
took parts of POV-Ray to include in a commercial product (as could
happen with your views), it would be theft, making money on the
back of people who whished to share something for free.

Fabien.

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