Christoph Hormann wrote:
> The idea that you could increase the popularity of a language by 
> disallowing its use does not require any comment IMO...

I believe m1j has a point. I think there's a widespread idea in the 
high-end world that just because POV is free, it's junk. This is 
obviously untrue. Think about it: in every high-end graphics gallery 
you've seen, whether community or personal, how many POV images have you 
seen? I, for one, have never seen a single image. And I've looked.

Why is this? Of course it's not because POV is not easy to just pick up 
and churn out a beautiful picture. Alias sells a whole shelf's worth of 
books with the pure purpose of teaching one to use Maya. I think POV is 
easier than that.

I'm open to other reasons, but I think m1j nailed it: corps and 
mainstream high-end artists think that it's worthless because there's no 
price tag specifically designed to blow holes in their socks.

I have not gotten into the SDL yet but I would be reluctant to portion 
that off to sell - too many people have used it and have dependent 
scenes to make that practical. I am saying that it is probably 
worthwhile to create something, whether it's an SDL parser like 
Christoph mentioned or maybe some features more aimed at large 
companies, that could be sold. Or whatever - but something to put a 
price on it. That's what a lot of people want to see when they're 
shopping for their workflow.



~Mike

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