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Warp wrote:
>   Because you are badmouthing the pov-team by (IMO) unjustly criticizing
> how they are distributing the 3.7 beta.

Fine, let's bad-mouth the POV team.

I don't mind having two versions of POV installed at the same time. I
have POV and MegaPOV on my machine right now. What pisses me off is
other people meddling with my computer and telling me when and how I can
use the software on my machine in my own home. It's my own damn
computer, and I'm going to use it whatever way I want, thank you very much.

Microsoft tells people how they can use their software, and puts people
through all this activation bullcrap to install Windows XP and later. I
don't use Microsoft software unless I absolutely have to.

Apple cripples their software so that it only runs on Apple hardware. I
don't use Apple products without a good reason.

Hollywood, the American music industry, and the video game industry put
"DRM" anti-copying software on all their products. I fight the urge to
spit in the face of anyone who buys said products, and wish their
creators nothing but ill.

Linus lets me use Linux any freaking way I want. I use Linux every
chance I can get.

The license for the POV stable releases gives me a degree of freedom
that I'm willing to live with. The POV betas are crippled to a degree
that I won't put up with.

While I'm ranting, why the hell does the POV team sit on the source code
for each new revision until the "final release"? Would letting people
see it somehow violate its sanctity? Is it not pretty enough? Or is the
POV team just so anal-retentive that they are frightened that someone
just might *improve* on their beta code? Shock, horror.

Alright, I'm done now.

- --
William Tracy
afi### [at] gmailcom -- wtr### [at] calpolyedu

You know you've been raytracing too long when you buy a new hard drive
so that you can have 2Gb worth of swap space.
    -- Nathan O'Brien
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