>> 
>> 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.
> 

Agreed, but still.......
Just have a look around, Lazarus, Amarok, KOffice, even KDE, Gnome and Linux
itself are joint efforts. And because they are works in progress people
will come and go.
If the group of designers, developers, coders and testers is willing to work
on it then an open source version of Povray will work. It's just one of
those things that one has to be willing to do, not because one is paid to
do it.
If after a while only Thorsten and Chris are the only ones left working on
it then obviously Povray didn't have what it needs to be an open source
project, but saying from the getgo that it can't work sounds a bit defiant
to me.
-- 
Ger

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