On Jan 12, 2012, at 6:56 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Max <abonneme...@revolwear.com> >> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancs...@yahoo.com> >> Cc: Richie Cyngler <glitch...@gmail.com>; pd list <pd-list@iem.at>; Ben >> Baker-Smith <bbakersm...@gmail.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:09 AM >> Subject: Re: [PD] no pd?? WTF ???? >> >> And that's not the end of the vicious cycle. >> Students who saved their money to buy a Max license are often unwilling to >> accept that their work could have been done as easy in Pd, and sometimes >> even >> better and/or easier. > > If you think of free > software as an ethical issue like I do and are talking about free programs > that have a > proprietary alternative, there is still an important division between those > programs that are > free and superior to their proprietary counterparts on practical grounds, and > those that > don't have the same feature set as their proprietary counterparts (but are > still quite good). > > In terms of ease of patching, Pd is clearly in the latter camp-- Max has > infinite undo, a > "Tidy Up" that actually _does_ something useful, and a set of externals that > allows to make > multiple connections at once and lots of other shortcuts (maybe these are > part of the core now, > I'm not sure). Plus tooltips, anchors to resize guis/boxes/messages, and > probably lots of > other things that make patching easier. > > I use Pd and free software (almost) exclusively, but we should be clear about > which features > are available and which are not.
Excellent point. Speaking of, is your tooltips patch fully functional in Pd-extended 0.43? I believe it is included, right? It would be great to ship with that working. .hc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "[W]e have invented the technology to eliminate scarcity, but we are deliberately throwing it away to benefit those who profit from scarcity." -John Gilmore _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
