On Sunday, Jan 25, 2004, at 05:07 America/New_York, Olaf Matthes wrote:
marius schebella wrote:
it is good that Pd is free and open source, in that way there is no financial barrier to use it (only technical, ....) BUT: i still dont understand, why software should be free at all???
That's a good point. I have some code (i.e. externals) I don't want to
give away for free (because it took so much time to code them), but
the impression about the average Pd user one gets when reading the
mailing list suggest that selling closed-source Pd externals is
something one would get 'killed' for. My solution was to switch to Max/MSP. There seems to be a completely
different attitute towards open-source among Max/MSP users. Nobody
cries "where is the source code?" in case I release an external
without sources and nobody complains when I decide to sell my stuff
instead of giving it away for free. But I also see the point that
having to pay 500,- USD for Max is to much for some people. On the
other hand I find it a reasonable price because I know how much work
it is to even support such a big software.
So you would take Pd and all of the contributions of so many people
without paying, then feel justified in charging someone else for your
additions to Pd? The best way to 'pay' for Pd is contribute some of
your own labor to it.
.hc
Olaf
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