I think it’s not easy to find a business model for developing Realsoft3D right now.Although I would very much like him to continue to develop.
--- Оригінальне повідомлення --- Від кого: "Jean-Sebastien Perron" <[email protected]> Дата: 6 грудня 2019, 01:08:57 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 _______________________________________________ User-list mailing list [email protected] http://realsoft.com/mailman/listinfo/user-list_realsoft.com
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