<div dir="ltr">Ok. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Ton Roosendaal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ton@blender.org" target="_blank">ton@blender.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
I can't find official texts on <a href="http://blender.org" target="_blank">blender.org</a> that call Blender a "project"... not that I would care much though.<br>
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-Ton-<br>
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Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation <a href="mailto:ton@blender.org">ton@blender.org</a> <a href="http://www.blender.org" target="_blank">www.blender.org</a><br>
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On 7 May, 2013, at 23:28, Jason van Gumster wrote:<br>
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> Where are you reading that Blender is a project? Can you provide a link?<br>
><br>
> That said, here's the way I look at it. Blender itself is a product. *However*<br>
> Blender's development is indeed a project... a continual, on-going project. The<br>
> same can be said for Blender's documentation.<br>
><br>
> So when someone talks about the Blender project, I read that as them discussing<br>
> Blender development... not the software.<br>
><br>
> -Jason<br>
><br>
> Nkansah Rexford <<a href="mailto:nkansahrexford@gmail.com">nkansahrexford@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> But what software is finished until it is painted with the EOL banner?<br>
>><br>
>> Even Microsoft windows even isn't finished as more and more new features<br>
>> are released year after year. But they don't call it a project.<br>
>><br>
>> Linux is open source and worked on by a strong community similar to blender<br>
>> but they don't call it project. It might have been a project in the first 2<br>
>> or 3 years but after ten years if one still calls it a project then it<br>
>> appears it isnt functioning as stable enough and cant be counted on for<br>
>> very professional work, so to speak.<br>
>><br>
>> Who will wanna use a software widely known still as a project? The<br>
>> expression project carries with it a kind of mentality of instability, non<br>
>> reliable piece of software that the developers are working on to make it<br>
>> useful. Meanwhile blender is already useful and used to create at least 3<br>
>> international standard short animation movies. So what's left?<br>
>><br>
>> So why a project still for blender? Blender is passed 10 years of<br>
>> development and its still a project?<br>
>><br>
>> If sintel and tears of steel were projects and they were created by a<br>
>> project software, how ridiculous that might sound.<br>
>><br>
>> I'm glad Ton is around to help explain<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks<br>
>> On May 7, 2013 5:50 PM, "Knapp" <<a href="mailto:magick.crow@gmail.com">magick.crow@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Nkansah Rexford<br>
>>> <<a href="mailto:nkansahrexford@gmail.com">nkansahrexford@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>> As per the definition of the word project it reads:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> "An individual or collaborative enterprise that is carefully planned and<br>
>>>> designed to achieve a particular aim"<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Is Blender software not past the project stages? Blender is stable,<br>
>>>> efficient and effective, simple to use, with details and very<br>
>>> functioning,<br>
>>>> and for me, better than many so-called industry standards suites out<br>
>>> there.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> However, Blender is still called a project, and I wonder why the word,<br>
>>>> project<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I know its worked on by many around the globe, but that's same for even<br>
>>>> proprietary suites, though they make money out of it.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Any reasons?<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> thanks<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> --<br>
>>>> +Rexford | +Blender Academy | +233 266 811 165 l BFCT<br>
>>><br>
>>> Maybe it is called that because it is not finished yet?<br>
>>><br>
>>> --<br>
>>> Douglas E Knapp<br>
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