On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, J. Scott Hildebrand wrote:
another record from then again... and if pd doesn't "make it," it'll never improve and it'll become old dusty software that very few people use.
On 21 Feb 2003, jfm3 wrote:
more people who use it successfully, the better. On the other hand, I don't like the idea of the mailing list clogging up with people who can barely run cakewalk complaining that their free software doesn't work. Food for thought for you, perhaps.
The hierarchy which emerges in a user community, centered around a lively, healthy free software project handles incoming newbies naturally. Without them, there is no community. More than 3 years ago, when I first started to grow the balls to post to people like Miller, Geiger, et al, the answers came swiftly, unprepossesingly, even from the pumpkin holder. Now, I answer on-list and off-list to -any- question posed that I think it is my place to answer as an advanced user, (though not as a developer, of course) even when the question is: 'can I, like, use PD to do stuff, like, what Cakewalk does like?' It is because of -their- (developers) patience that someone like me (a piano player with no previous interest whatsoever in computing, let alone nux-based development), gets their 'chops'. In turn, I learn to exercise the same amount of patience.
Do you not agree that this is a good thing?
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