[PD] Re: [PD-dev] SourceForge "Donations"

[marius schebella]

> From: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans at eds.org>

> I think that a
> lot of people who use Pd would be willing to give money to get the
> features that they want.


I don't think so. None of the average Pd-users is voluntary (??is this the
right word??) willing to pay a Cent. Yes, if someone really needs a feature
and is willing to pay for it, then he will give money for it, sure, but I
never heard that happened. People pay artists/composers for their work and
applications using Pd... but programmers don't see any of that money, only
if they are programmer and artist in one person.

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??? i think the main reason
is, that it is still unusual to pay via internet or bank transfer, and that
there is no copy protection and people have no scruple about stealing
software. so solving those two problems: 1) finding an easy way of payment
and 2) making it unpossible to do illegal copies would give a totally new
view of the software/programmer/Pd/money problem.

Then "a lot of people" would be willing (because they had no other choice)
to pay for Pd like buying a chair at IKEA. So my suggestion would be to talk
about the price of Pd.

Marius.