Yes, a bounty system would be great. At this point, if you are not a student, Max/MSP/Jitter costs about $850 US. I think that (myself included) many Pd users would gladly shell out a few dollars to see features met. I for one have donated to Hans' efforts directly on his site via PayPal, because I know of the importance of financial 'reinforcement.'
What is Matju's bounty on getting gridflow working out of box on OS X? ~Kyle On Dec 6, 2007 2:05 PM, Frank Barknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo, > Kyle Klipowicz hat gesagt: // Kyle Klipowicz wrote: > > > And this is precisely the unfortunate reason why the open source world > > will (almost) always lag behind the commercial world of consumer > > software. When developers make their bread and butter based upon if > > the consumer buys, they're more likely to pay attention to and > > implement the wishes of their users. Take Ableton. They actively parse > > their online forums for feature requests...and then implement them > > when a critical mass is reached. > > > > There are some exceptions in the FOSS world. Ubuntu is quite user > > friendly (with the support of a large endowment from a very wealthy > > organization with a charter specifically devoted to bringing Linux to > > the non-programmer set of the world). Firefox is giving IE a run for > > it's money (although the primary codebase from FF comes from the old > > commercial, closed source Netscape). > > Ubuntu, while open source, is a commercial product. Like Redhat Linux > and many other commercial FLOSS products. For these kinds of open > source software, money of course is one motivation, and if that money > comes directly from the user, the user's wishes are a influencing the > software more directly. Money is not a bad motivator, and it's even > playing a role in our little Pd world, where some projects are or have > been funded (like IIRC the early work by Hans on pd-extended, or many > docs, which were made for paid workshops etc.) > > > > Ciao > -- > Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__ > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -- ----- ------------ ---- ----- ---- -------- - ------ http://perhapsidid.wordpress.com http://myspace.com/kyleklipowicz _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
