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Phew! Three days closed in my anti-atomic bunker kept me safe from that toxic cloud
which seems to have crossed this newsgroup recently...
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Jonathan.
"Rick [Kitty5]" <ric### [at] kitty5 com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:3c970111@news.povray.org...
> Well why not ?
>
> Pov as it currently exists is still given away to all who care to play
>
> Commercial versions are developed as seamless plugins for the big expensive
> 3d environments - such as Maya & max. closed source and with a different
> licence.
>
> cash raised could be used to pay for the web services, pay someone to
> support the commercial versions, etc etc etc
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> Rick
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Yes it would, but not most of them. The problem, as I stated in the other
thread on this issue, is that commercialization would kill the volunteer
support, yet not generate enough income to pay for the necessary
labor. The result would be the death of POV-Ray.
Harold
news:3c975235$1@news.povray.org...
>
> Don't you think that PoV would loose users when turning to shareware?
> regards
> SY
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It might not lose _users_ of Pov in general- but it would certainly lose
those who didn't have a copy of good old 3.1g installation file squirreled
away }:-)
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> > I think you are right in expecting a loss of popularity. Sad but true.
>
> Every program would be more popular if it was free.
> My last word to this discussion.
Linux & associated apps are free, yet it has less than 1% of the desktop
market. Why?
Rick
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> | pov is still distributed as it is now for free, and separate commercial
> | versions are created to integrate with commercial packages that cost a
> | fortune anyhow.
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> I think POV-Ray would find it hard to enter a market dominated by
Renderman.
> Sure, POV-Ray is a ray-tracer, but so is BMRT, and BMRT is Renderman
compliant,
> whilst POV-Ray is not.
>
> BMRT was actually used in a scene in "A Bug's Life" because ray-tracing
> was needed for a glass object.
harder still if it never tries.
Rick
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Rick [Kitty5] <ric### [at] kitty5com> wrote:
> Linux & associated apps are free, yet it has less than 1% of the desktop
> market. Why?
You will not make POV-Ray as popular as Windows just by making it
commercial. You need a lot more than that (many of these means are morally
and even legally questionable).
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The second a free program goes commercial, people start developing more
free programs to replace it just like the GNU project did to commercial
UNIX's.
Brendan
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> Linux & associated apps are free, yet it has less than 1% of the desktop
> market. Why?
Apache Web server is free and has more than 50% of the web server market...
Given enough numbers, you can prove whatever your point is.
It's just a matter of isolating the 'right' number!
(right: good, according to the view to demonstrate.)
Moreover, how do you collect number of the desktop market ?
By cash flow ??? Then of course free desktop count less than expensive one.
And with the MS licence upgrade system, I currently would count as
a 4 MS home system: DOS, W3.11, W95 and W98. Whereas I only kept W98 installed.
Given that after W98, there was WME and now XP that the mass would have
upgraded to, by how much should you adjust the numbers ?
Side note: My system is a dual-boot with Linux, and main serious work
is perform under Linux. I currently kept W98 only for DVD playing, mpeg works
and internet connection (I'm just too lazy to configure that on Linux).
And I really prefer the free StarOffice 5.2 to the 'I cannot afford-bureautic' of MS.
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> Moreover, how do you collect number of the desktop market ?
<snip>
> Side note: My system is a dual-boot with Linux, and main serious work
> is perform under Linux.
There! You get counted under Linux. In answer to your question, you ask
people what OS they primarily use. Haven't you seen those surveys?
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Bill DeWitt wrote:
> There! You get counted under Linux.
Nope...
>In answer to your question, you ask
> people what OS they primarily use. Haven't you seen those surveys?
I avoid surveys as well as dissiminating personal data around to unknown org.
How accurate can be a surveys were only thus who want can answer ?
How can you trust the answers, and therefore the surveys ?
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