Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> In article <3e4b6184@news.povray.org> , Thomas Willhalm
> <tho### [at] uni-konstanzde>  wrote:
>> 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:
> 
Sorry...
I did not want to join this thread again but it seems the readers 
get to know your personal motivation for some of your optinions. 

Hint for the readers: Especially note point 8 in the list below and 
combine it with: 

(Thorsten Froehlich, Sunday 02 February 2003 13:56:19)
> The GPL comes with a
> political message that is not acceptable to all team members. 
> It certainly isn't acceptable to me.

...and...

(Thorsten Froehlich, Thursday 06 February 2003 20:15:54): 
> The whole idea of the FSF and thus the GPL is to turn software development
> and ownership of software into some kind of communism.  It seeks to strip
> an elite group (programmers) from the right to make money from their
> creative work and sole right to their work.  Instead the masses of
> uneducated wannabe programmers are allowed to screw up the programs.

[You probably noticed yourself that there are some right aspects but 
the way you put it here is more or less bullshit. No need for flame war.]

Let's read on: 

> 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
"all OS support" wow...

> 6. user, rather than computer scientist centric
That depends on how you see it. 

> 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
OpenOffice used to be 8. But no longer IMO. 

> GCC        3,6
> KDE        3,5,7,8
> Gnome      3,5,7,8
> FreeBSD    3,5,6
> Linux      3,5,6,8
>
Note: Linux has 8 but FreeBSD not. Hm. 
So, running FreeBSD is not 8 but running KDE on FreeBSD _is_ 8...

> Xfree      3,6,7
7: Patching POVRay is easier than patching XFree86, at least for me. 
6: Hm?

> Mozilla    1,2,7,8
I object to 8 here. You certainly know what IE is?!

> Apache     5,6,7
> Darwin     1,3,4,6
>
Note: Darwin does not have 8 but 6 ?!

> Blender    1,2,5
> Wings3d    1,2,5
> 

Wolfgang

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