On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:20:32 +0900 i go bananas hard.off@gmail.com wrote:
However, one of the real special gems for me in my journey through the world of pd, was discovering that not only was it a fantastic way to program, but also, that Miller had issued pd through a license that i had never even heard of before, and it was the best sort of license i could imagine. It was a dream come true, when i got a job to do audio development and i could just do it all in pd because we could just embed the entire pd program inside our app.
Yes it's wonderful. The magic of Millers Pd and our persistent advocacy of it paid off, and it's opened the door for scores of new companies, hundreds of new breed audio programmers who can rapidly produce thousands of cool new products. And it's great to hear you landed on your feet with a gig doing a skilled and very enjoyable thing. ;)
It would be remiss to not mention that the early movers this direction had to fight tooth and nail _against_ the manufacturers who ultimately share in the profits of this business. And we continue to fight daily against moronic anti-economies of shortsighted, lazy, greedy, controlling "profit before productivity" thinking.