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... WTF happened?

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47f21bc9$1@news.povray.org...
> Check out XKCD ...
>
>
> ... WTF happened?

Well, I read today that Microsoft will include POV-Ray in DirectX 11 to 
support real time raytracing and that it will shipped with Vista SP2 by the 
end of the year.

G.


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Gilles Tran wrote:

> 
> Well, I read today that Microsoft will include POV-Ray in DirectX 11 to 
> support real time raytracing and that it will shipped with Vista SP2 by the 
> end of the year.
> 
> G.
> 

Now, really. Would the POV-Team ever allow that to happen?

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Check out XKCD ...
> 
> ... WTF happened?

We call it April Fools' Day.

Regards,
John

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John VanSickle wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>> Check out XKCD ...
>>
>> ... WTF happened?
> 
> We call it April Fools' Day.

Yeah, not soon after posting that did I look at the calendar.

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In other news today... www.dnsstuff.com have stopped allowing you to use 
all mannar of useful tools they previously offered. (Now apparently you 
have to *pay* for them.)

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> In other news today... www.dnsstuff.com have stopped allowing you to use 
> all mannar of useful tools they previously offered. (Now apparently you 
> have to *pay* for them.)

  Quite typical. First develop something and offer it for free, and if
it gets popular enough, get greedy and start enforcing your right to
ask money for it. Basically it's not even morally questionable. Of course
it's a slight bummer to all those who got to like the free tools and
cannot get upgrades for free anymore.

  In a few cases it's the other way around: First the products were
commercial, but then they became free of charge (and in even fewer
cases open source).

  A slightly more common variant of the previous is that the products
become free for personal use but remain non-free for commercial use.

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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> In other news today... www.dnsstuff.com have stopped allowing you to use 
>> all mannar of useful tools they previously offered. (Now apparently you 
>> have to *pay* for them.)
> 
>   Quite typical. First develop something and offer it for free, and if
> it gets popular enough, get greedy and start enforcing your right to
> ask money for it. Basically it's not even morally questionable. Of course
> it's a slight bummer to all those who got to like the free tools and
> cannot get upgrades for free anymore.

Indeed. Now if I have a DNS problem, I have *no way* of finding out what 
the outside world sees... This site used to be a highly valuable tool 
for diagnosing DNS faults.

>   In a few cases it's the other way around: First the products were
> commercial, but then they became free of charge (and in even fewer
> cases open source).

Mozilla?

>   A slightly more common variant of the previous is that the products
> become free for personal use but remain non-free for commercial use.

Yes, that too...

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> Indeed. Now if I have a DNS problem, I have *no way* of finding out what 
> the outside world sees... This site used to be a highly valuable tool 
> for diagnosing DNS faults.

dnsstuff just keeps increasing the size of their "buy our services!" 
banner. Free tools remain.

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> Check out XKCD ...
> 
> 
> ... WTF happened?

Why? I don't see anything strange on the site.

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