On 15/03/2013 22:30, clipka wrote:
> Am 15.03.2013 20:03, schrieb Timwi:
>> Well, neither of those turn the GUI off. All of them open a POV-ray
>> editor window, do the render (visibly!) and then exit.
>>
>> This way, rendering a hundred images requires me to either run 100 GUI
>> instances, or run them one after the other. In both cases, my computer
>> is completely unusable for quite some time while windows keep popping up.
>>

>
> There are various reasons for this, one being a series of "copyleft
> infringements": At some time various people thought it was ok to sell
> commercial software that deliberately hid the fact that the actual
> rendering was done with POV-Ray; at that point, it was decided to have
> the Windows version always fire up the GUI. (At least that's what I've
> heard tell.)

Surely the correct response to that is to sue the perpetrator, not to 
massively inconvenience all Windows users...

Timwi

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