[Bf-docboard] Blender still a Project?

[Nkansah Rexford]

Ok.


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:

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