On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Sébastien Bourdeauducq <[email protected]> wrote: > Some comments on this video: > * "we value freedom over features": not a good idea, unless you want to end up > like some open hardware projects that are failing. We want both freedom and > features. Technically, proprietary products like [1] aren't super-hard to > match, if not outperform, given the current state of things. It's essentially > a relatively simple problem of software development.
Freedom is a feature too! > * not ready for "creative" people: I think we are close to. Last workshop at > CNAM was with about 15 non-technical people almost all with artistic > backgrounds, and they managed to write new patches after explanations and > demonstrations. The MilkDrop programming language isn't complex, and learning > it (by building a new patch) can be easily done by steps and experimentations. > * the question about cloud computing is hilarious. Sounds like we're building > an iPhone or something like that :) > > Anyway, good talk overall, thanks for making that presentation. > > Sébastien > > [1] http://www.edirol.com/index.php/en/products-mainmenu-421/visual- > performance-mainmenu-384/cg-8 > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.milkymist.org/listinfo.cgi/devel-milkymist.org > IRC: #milkym...@freenode > Webchat: www.milkymist.org/irc.html > Wiki: www.milkymist.org/wiki > -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ http://fabricatorz.com/ http://status.net/ http://rejon.status.net + skype: kidproto +1.415.830.3884 (sf/global) +86.187.1003.9974 (china) _______________________________________________ http://lists.milkymist.org/listinfo.cgi/devel-milkymist.org IRC: #milkym...@freenode Webchat: www.milkymist.org/irc.html Wiki: www.milkymist.org/wiki
