Will version 4 be re-written to the point that multithreading and parallel
processing would be feasible?

Jim


"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] fwicom...
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:47:10 +0100, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> >
> >
> > Ron Parker wrote:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >> In any case, the same thing that
> >> keeps us from changing the license to something more open also keeps us
from
> >> changing it to something more closed.
> >
> > With one important difference: Most users will not have any objections
> > against a more open system, but this would be different for a more
closed
> > one.
>
> Okay, now this is really speaking for myself and not for the Team, and
it's
> also entirely tongue-in-cheek, but...  Users?  What are those?  Why is
their
> opinion important?
>
> No, really, the license can't change for all the reasons we've all heard
> before: the code was contributed by people who we no longer have any
contact
> with under the terms of the old license.  Changing the license in any
> significant way might be contrary to their wishes, so it won't happen
until
> all of the code has been rewritten.  How the users feel about it has very
> little, if any, impact on the matter.
>
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