On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Thomas Grill wrote:
- Given that, 100$ within 5 months can't pay my rent, so i'll have to charge
some money for upcoming developments. None of the current packages will be involved, including flext, but some large future packages will. Clearly, these will have functionality that none of the currently published PD-related stuff has, otherwise it won't make any sense.
Hi,
I think this discussion is very interesting. One thing that I start to understand is why it is so hard to build up a developers community in pd.
But, no matter what features your software will have, selling software depends on marketing and brands (I mean, if Windows wasn't that well known and used, who in the world would buy this crap ;) ?)
So you are taking advantage of an infrastructure and a market value that is built up on the fame of Miller Puckette and on the work and support of dozens of others.
Well, unfortunately I can't help you to find a job that makes you happy and pays your rent, but I think, that selling commercial addons to pd might not be the job that makes you happy either.
This doesn't mean that I am against your plans, not at all, but I doubt that it will work out.
Guenter