POV-Ray : Newsgroups : moray.win : Moray progress : Re: Moray progress Server Time
6 Oct 2024 06:18:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Moray progress  
From: Dave Dunn
Date: 14 Aug 2001 16:42:02
Message: <3B798D4C.C1488088@aol.com>
Lutz Kretzschmar wrote:

> >Yes, I have not been able to work on Moray at all in the last few
> >months. The registrations are far too few to support me (let alone my
> >partner) and so we currently need to do fulltime contracting work.

> As a registered Moray user, I would be interested to know the ratio of
> people who have downloaded Moray to those who have registered it. Now,
> the argument goes that folks have thrity days to try Moray before they
> register, and after thatt time, they should simply stop using it. But
> how many keep using it after that time? I would wager that the number is
> high enough to keep Moray in development, at least for a while. There is
> a perception that, just because POV-Ray is free, that everything
> associated with it should be free; this is not the case with Moray, and
> pretending that it is doesn't make it so. Moray is currently the most
> comprehensive modeler for POV-Ray there is, and I would hate to see it
> go away, simply because the authors are kind enough to offer it without
> any disabled features. It seems that some people are taking this as a
> sign that they don't have to register.


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