On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:38:16AM +0200, pd-list-request@iem.at wrote:

Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:29:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca Subject: Re: [PD] Analog/good-sounding oscillators in PD

It's because originality is not valued by the mainstream.

I doubt very much that this statement is generally true. Current economic models aren't always optimised for bringing originality to the mainstream, and the mainstream is too lazy/busy to go out and seek it, but that doesn't mean that they don't value it. All that is changing though, with new distribution and targetted marketing models. Check out these links:

http://www.aip.org/pnu/2004/split/709-1.html http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail

Best,

Chris.

chris@mccormick.cx http://mccormick.cx