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Ger wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> 
>>   I'm not sure I have any reason to, but what I fear is that once the
>> developement of POV-Ray becomes completely open, if it so happens that
>> nobody takes the role of strong leader ("dictator") or nobody is accepted
>> as such, what will happen is that there will be too many cooks spoiling
>> the broth and no general agreement is ever reached over which kind of
>> scripting language should be adopted and implemented. Even if an attempt
>> at designing such a language, the "too many cooks" will only stir the mud
>> and without that strong leadership the entire thing can become a complete
>> mess.
>>   As I see it, the three most likely scenarios are:
>>
> 
> I wonder why you think this.
> 
> There is a sufficient large number of open source projects out there with
> which it worked, and still works. OpenOffice and such come to mind.
> 
	Probably because there is a sufficiently large number of open
source projects out there with which it didn't work, and precious
few with which it did.

	OpenOffice was first developed as proprietary software and is
currently maintained by Sun. I believe that there is a strong
leadership emanating from Sun to guide the project.

		Jerome
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