POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.newusers: Why povray?: why are you converting to pov if you have 3DSMAX?

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Why povray? : why are you converting to pov if you have 3DSMAX?		Server Time 5 Sep 2024 22:19:18 EDT (-0400)

From: daishi
Date: 11 Jul 1999 20:54:19
Message: <37893B82.17605CA8@x-press.net>

why in the world would you convert to pov if you can afford 3DSMAX?
doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose of using a $4k dollar program?