[PD] no licensing, no money?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 17, 2005, at 7:27 AM, Thomas Grill wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> i think hans proposed using a bounty system for the pd development...  
>> i
>> like this idea very much ...
> what i don't like about the bounty system, is the idea of  
> "competition" or "hunt" which is not really compatible with  
> "community" to my mind.

In theory, I guess bounties could be competitive.  But in practice, I  
don't think they would be.  For the most part, Pd devs work on there  
own stuff, and there isn't much overlap.  So bounties would allow users  
to fund the development of features that they want thru a process that  
is much more open than just giving money to a specific developer.

We definitely should discuss this more.  SourceForge has a mechanism  
for accepting donations for the group, but the hard part is figuring  
out how this group would handle the money.  One idea is to have one  
developer, one vote, and work that way.  Each developer registered with  
SourceForge would have a vote.  Those who have contributed lots to Pd  
but are not currently part of the SF project would be encouraged to  
join.

Just my two bits...

.hc

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