You are too full of it and I am amazed that many have taken your posts
seriously.  Your posts amount to an insult to povray developers.
Maan


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> ... send flames to my personal e-mail address since it is OT in here just
to
> tell me that you hate me and what an idiot I am. Thanks!
>
> Very interesting how many people feel personally insulted when asking
about
> pricing policy. :-)
>
> To explain it a bit further: (for those who still read my posts)
>
> .) PoV is a great freeware Raytracer and a very good piece of software,
> documentation and support. The developers spend most of their spare time
(I
> guess) to keep the good work up. I really know what I'm speaking about
since
> I had to let die my Astronomy software due to the lack of time (with
roughly
> 4 hours a week I couldn't really do much in complex astronomical
> algorithms...).
>
> .) it is not unusual that excellent freeware turnes to shareware at some
> point to keep up web sites, support and development.
>
> .) The PoV team has costs for newsgroup, web space, buying compilers,
books
> or what ever. Currently they try to cover that by selling IRTC CD's,
> Keyrings (hey, I got mine yesterday!) and whatever. If this is enough and
> PoV can stay for free, it would be -great-
>
> .) If not, I wouldn't hesitate to buy PoV
>
> Seeing all this at a glance I can not beleive that there were never, ever
> some thoughts about pricing. The team calculates (has to calculate) the
> costs and try to cover them. The (planned?) book is another good idea for
> this. The team knows the costs and has a good feeling about the number of
> the users. I am sure it is easy to calculate a price necessary to keep up
> support ( if you count the -time- of the developers efforts it would be
> unpayable)
>
> But you all know this (even better than me, I guess) so why do I have to
> explain it?
>
> Just one thing I don't understand is, why people tell me that I am an
idiot
> if I do basic financial calculations and ask the developers about their
> results?
>
> regards
> SY
>
>
>

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