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From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Free Raytracer?/Seeking Contract Amiga Work
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Date: 10 Aug 90 18:29:53 GMT
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In article <1990Aug10.000541.11658@vicorp.com> ron@vicorp.COM (Ron Peterson) writes:
>I am thinking of releasing my raytracing and animation system !C-Light!
>to the public, perhaps as shareware.  Having made several attempts at
>marketing it myself with little success (mostly due to my naiveness)
>and having gotten burned by a European publisher, I think C-Light has 
>achieved a negative reputation that would be hard to change without 
>greatly expanding the features.  

Other possibilities you may or may not have considered (but will all
net you a better return than the shareware route) :

	1) Fix any and all known bugs and re-release it as C-Light Plus
	   for more money.
	2) Fix all bugs and add a few features and re-release it as
	   C-Light Professional
	3) Add a front-end that converts scientific data into 3-D plots
	   that are then ray-traced and call is "Visualization Software"
	4) Give it a different name and re-release it.
	5) Sell the rights to the code to another publisher.
	6) Write an article about it and publish that.

It was really too bad about being messed up by the various publishers,
hopefully it won't discourage you from other projects.


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