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29 Jul 2024 12:19:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Future PovRay source code availability  
From: Thomas Willhalm
Date: 28 Jul 1998 05:02:08
Message: <qqmg1fmmmjj.fsf@goldach.informatik.uni-konstanz.de>
Alain CULOS <ZAl### [at] bigfootcom> writes:

> Thomas Willhalm wrote:
> 
> > They don't have to release anything -- neither beta versions, source code
> > nor a final product. It's freeware.
> 
> That's one major point : their freedom to do so or not to do so.

Don't get me wrong: I didn't want to say they have to use a bazaar like
development, but I wanted to understand why they don't. Thorsten's and
your answers helped me to see that partially they do already and why
they don't fully. In particular, I think the main reason is your last
argument:

> Of course it is possible, but that has a cost : time to manage.
> The POV-Team I guess is more interested in doing the thing for themselves 
> rather than the possibility of not doing it and managing hundreds of 
> developpers worldwide.

Happy tracing

Thomas

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