>...The Team doesn't want to
>see POV being integrated too tightly with commercial code, to the extent
>that it's not obvious to the end user that it's POV doing the work.  The
>restriction is intended to keep that from happening, but the end result
>is that it keeps things like plugins from happening too.


I can understand that. With the latest round of work
being done on POV-Ray, however, it's becoming obvious
that POV-Ray is being taken seriously and people are
trying to make it do very serious work, and likewise
the POV-Team should start taking that into account
(if they haven't already).

Good programs never stagnate; they either get better
or get eclipsed by something else. POV-Ray is maturing
into what will (hopefully) be true production class,
and that's a different environment than a bunch of
people writing raytracing code for fun. You don't
see Linus Torvalds getting upset when some commercial
enterprise makes money off Linux, because he's
happy just to have created it, regardless of
what happens after. He'd be upset if someone were to
wind up owning Linux, but the protections have
already been put into place to prevent that, I think.

Ray

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