"Gary Shannon" <reb### [at] teleportcom> writes:

> 
> Considering the outrageous price tag on commercial art software I would
> happily pay $100 for POV-Ray.  Maybe the answer is some kind of reasonably
> priced MEMBERSHIP in a "POV_Ray organization".  Membership would maybe
> entitle you to access to the POV-Ray newsgroups, or maybe a newsletter or
> POV magazine.  Or it might be advisable <gasp!> to make POV-Ray shareware. 
> I'd rather pay for what I'm getting and be able to GET IT than to loose
> access to the resources you're providing.

I do agree. The idea of a membership price is (to my mind) good.
But, there are several points that can be hard to manage: I guess we
would get trouble if we just paid for nothing. So, the newsletter (or
magazine) is a way to give back something. I think we could easily turn
the authors (or coordinators) of The Rendering Times (or The POV-Ray Times,
I cannot remember what name they chose) into giving you the SGML source,
which one could easily convert to Postscript and print, then send.

As for the shareware, I do not quite agree with you, for hte same reasons
as have been exposed in another followup to your article.

POV-Ray forever,

Roland.
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