Hi, A brief summary .... Mathieu ... I appreciate every day of this community ... and of course, we are pd ...
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeest regards José 2011/3/9 Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]>: > On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Pierre Massat wrote: > >> I was trying to get Ardour to work last night and i came accross the forum >> on their website. I must say i was quite shocked to see how many posts were >> about money. I was equally surprized to see that the latest full version of >> Ardour isn't free (although you can name your price). > > "Name your price" is actually a characteristic of the download site, not the > software. > > From what I read, Ardour remains FLOSS nonetheless. > >> 1) What are the economics of open source software, and how sustainable is >> the model? > > FLOSS is not an economic model, it's a set of licenses (and of potential > future licenses with the same basic characteristics). > > You use the license as a tool to come up with an economic model of your > choice, but there are many possibilities, both with a pure FLOSS license > (which is the case of Ardour), and with a hybrid approach (involving > proprietary licenses in some way). > >> How does it work for Pd? > > There is no such system for the Pd community. Each developer has his/her own > "economic model", which usually means something noneconomic like donating > plenty of time for little return. > >> 2) I get the feeling that open source developpers used to think that the >> idea of free (free beer...) software was cool, but 10 to 15 years down the >> line (that is, now) they're beginning to realize that they can't keep on >> doing this forever. Am I wrong here? > > It possibly happens to *lots* of people, but it doesn't make the FLOSS > movement getting any smaller. > >> I have been considering making a donation since i've been using Pd >> extensively for a few years now. But could someone tell me exactly how it >> works? Who gets the money? > > The person who gets the money is the person you send it to. > >> And i never use GEM or Gridflow (cause i have no need for it at the >> moment), so i don't see why part of my donation should go to Mathieu or >> GEM's author(s). > > What makes you think that GEM's authors and I are somehow not contributing > anything significant to Pd-vanilla ? > > _______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > -- http://arselectronicachile.blogspot.com http://comunicacionnativa.blogspot.com/ http://www.myspace.com/santorcuato _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
