In article <3e4b6184@news.povray.org> , Thomas Willhalm 
<tho### [at] uni-konstanzde>  wrote:

> Then I suggest that you stop completly distributing source code and include
> an expiration date in every binary. Otherwise you can't make sure that
> similar things will happen again.
>
> Again: What makes povray so different from all the projects I mentioned?

It is a program for users with a long history of stability.  None of the
other projects you mentioned has _all_ these attributes:

1. a long history
2. a stable source base
3. did not fork wildly or was abandoned for an extended period of time
4. cross-platform compatibility
5. all operating system support
6. user, rather than computer scientist centric
7. does require substancial knowledge about topic to make modifications
8. is more than a "I don't like M$ project"

The projects you mentioned don't have:

OpenOffice 1,2,7,8
GCC        3,6
KDE        3,5,7,8
Gnome      3,5,7,8
FreeBSD    3,5,6
Linux      3,5,6,8
Xfree      3,6,7
Mozilla    1,2,7,8
Apache     5,6,7
Darwin     1,3,4,6
Blender    1,2,5
Wings3d    1,2,5

    Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

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