Hi Pall, First off I would make the distinction between Free Software and Open Source (sorry to bring that one up again:). Secondly, the big thing for me is that this is really all about social-relations - how do I wish to be treated and how will I treat others.
I could bang on and on but that's the big one. This is worth checking out http://texts.bleu255.com/preface-flossart/ as is the rest of the book which should be freely floating about online. (can't put my finger on it straight away but there was/is an online version which included all the books sources which was a nice touch) Bit of shameless self-promotion here too: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/15006/ Regards, Julian On 10 February 2014 12:12, Simon Wise <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/02/14 20:27, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > >> Hi Pall, >> >> On 10/02/2014 04:45, Pall Thayer wrote: >> >>> This was a faculty grant at a US arts-focused college. I would say that >>> 95% of students, 80% of faculty use Apple products. That really doesn't >>> matter though. >>> >> >> As you asked for feedback.. >> I think it does. I'm not proposing the usual (sterile) apple vs. xyz >> flame, but >> I've noticed this "mac for music" thing in academia and conservatoires >> over here >> (Italy). One thing that surprised me is the attachment to this ecosystem >> in the >> electoacoustic music landscape, where one would expect people to >> experiment as >> much as possible with unknown and unfamiliar tools in all directions. >> What is also interesting is to understand if the use of Apple products and >> software (e.g. MAX/MSP) is truly justified by creative/artistic needs or >> if it's >> just a matter of habit/convenience (this question in a neutral way, i.e. >> nothing >> against convenience). >> > > 15 years ago editing video was very much better on a mac than any other > comparably priced system, this certainly helped encourage many AV people to > learn the mac way. While they still used powerPC chips there were a lot of > advantages to OSX over linux for working with video in pd. A few good audio > apps have been available on mac for a lot longer than that, and macs have > been pretty consistently easy to set up for common audio workflows ... > providing you stick with mac friendly hardware purchases and adapt your > practice those workflows. Much earlier Apple had got a lot of designers on > board in a similar way with desktop publishing. > > Learning to use an OS is a lot of invested time, changing OSes means a new > investment of time. Apple understands this and has often made it quite > cheap for educational institutions to get macs to teach on and has kept > transitions between versions reasonably easy for the user, so a lot of > students and artists with a bit of cash to throw at good equipment learn > OSX, then go on to use it rather than learn another and when it comes time > to pick a platform to teach on or recommend to others ... > > Habit and already invested time, plus decent equipment and effective tools > available without changing OS are a quite persuasive combination. Now on a > hand-held level apple hardware is again significantly better than other > stuff for some media and audio uses. > > But you miss out on quite a lot too, and educational institutions should > try to broaden their students' experience rather than just go with what is > easiest. > > Simon > > > >> I'm not sure how (much) this fits in the topic you're going to address, >> but I >> think it's an interesting angle to take into account. And I'll be happy >> to share >> my personal experiences further if you think it's interesting (as I guess >> my >> email was already rather long) >> >> Ciao, >> Lorenzo. >> > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list >
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