[PD] no licensing, no money?

[Thoralf Schulze]

hi everyone,

it's good to see that this issue is being discussed
here ... 

> 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.

I agree. Then again, the pd community (like any other
open source community) is probably not as coherent as
it seems to be at a first glance: there are the
developers working on the software package and the
users that use it for whatever their purposes are.
There is a fundamental difference between developers
and users: developers implement the stuff they are
missing, while users are unable to do so, because they
are - well, just users. Enthusiastic users most of the
time (and especially with regard to pure data), but
still - they can't program, and this is not due to a
lack of will, but to a lack of knowledge that can't be
alleviated within a month or so. From this point of
view, bounties might be a good instrument to bring
developers and users closer together - after all, the
things that the average Joe User is missing in pd are
not necessarily less important than the new and nifty
things the average developer is implementing at the
same time. 
Needless to say, this is not meant to be a rant or an
insult towards the devs or Joe User ... I see bounties
as an additional incentive for developers to implement
this or that often requested feature. Admittedly, we
would introduce some sort of market mechanism into the
shiny new world of open source development, but -
unless every child learns to program c++ in
kindergarten, open source won't change the world
anyway ... it will definitely not abolish capitalism.
or so i guess.

my 2 cents,
Thoralf.



	

	
		
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