In article <3f4dcc65@news.povray.org>, tho### [at] trfde says...
> In article <3f4d0772$1@news.povray.org> , David Burnett 
> <var### [at] ntlworldcom>  wrote:
> 
> > AoI already got a mention, so I'll start with Wings3d at
> > www.wings3d.org which is currently joining in the software
> > patent protest (I notice www.povray.org isn't though...)
> 
> Who knows, maybe it would be a good thing to patent some of the more trivial
> algorithms in POV-Ray.  It could prevent the commercial competition from
> using the same methods, and there is no law that requires someone to license
> something to someone else ;-) ;-) ;-)
> 
>     Thorsten
> 
The irony here is that in the patent frenzied BS world, you should 
probably do it anyway, so that a year from now some other asshole doesn't 
patent them and sue POV-Ray. Was going to put a smiley there, but I 
really don't think it is that funny.... :(

-- 
void main () {

    call functional_code()
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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