It is just sad because in 2 months EIAS will release version 10 after so many years.
On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 6:06 PM leee <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 04 December 2019 23:52:51 Jean-Sebastien Perron wrote: > > I would like to see a new version of Realsfot. > > We could finance it from Kickstarter. > > So we would pay first, then it would get made. > > > > Jean-Sebastien Perron > > Whilst I would also like to see Realsoft3D kept alive and further > developed > (V8 notwithstanding) I suspect that the Meskanen brothers need to spend > most of their time making a living for themselves - something that > Realsoft3D, with it's relatively small user-base, isn't going to provide > (the size of the user-base is a whole other historic issue now). > > Considering the hiatus between the last bit of V7 news, posted on > 2011-10-29, and the V8 announcement posted on 2018-12-06 (ref: > https://www.realsoft.com) my personal (uninformed) opinion is that RS3D > has > become something of a hobby/vanity project for the Meskanens, kept alive > because it was a good bit of high quality work, did things right (instead > of wrong ;) and was something to be proud of. > > I believe that if the Meskanens really want RS3D to survive, without a > large > enough user-base to fund on-going development, then they need to > open-source it, if this is possible. The trouble is that it may not be > possible to open-source RS3D because it may incorporate original > algorithms > developed by the Mesakanens that have subsequently been licensed to other > parties/interests outside of RS3D on conditions that preclude open-source. > > Thinking back over the years - my earliest user-list emails were from 1998 > - > RS3D was a very important bit of software to me - it was what I used to > express myself, and in that respect defined me, so I would be very > interested to know how Juha and Vesa view RS3D - what it was to them in > the > past, and what it is to them now. > > LeeE > > _______________________________________________ > User-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://realsoft.com/mailman/listinfo/user-list_realsoft.com >
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