Le 6 déc. 07 à 22:05, Kyle Klipowicz a écrit : > 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? It would be nice to have this library directly in pd-extended ! ;) Or a great tutorial (How to install gridflow on osx for beginner ?)
Jack > > ~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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
