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  Re: [patch] Suggesting trivial patch (again)  
From: Thomas Willhalm
Date: 13 Feb 2003 04:12:36
Message: <3e4b6184@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> In article <3e4a1b89@news.povray.org> , Thomas Willhalm
> <tho### [at] uni-konstanzde>  wrote:
> 
>> Why does it work for them but not for you?
> 
> Because fools (aka people who don't read any manuals, readmes, etc) start
> patching those versions and the distribute them.  Or people compile them
> and never update and then come back three years later complaining that
> bugs
> supposedly haven't been fixed.  Has happened in the past...

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?

Thomas


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