[PD] Re: [PD-dev] pdogg hacks

rama medialist at xicnet.com
Sun May 29 23:55:59 CEST 2005


El vie, 27-05-2005 a las 11:30 +0200, Olaf Matthes escribió:
> rama wrote:
> >>Over the years more and more bugs were fixed, new features implemented
> >>and several things changed quite dramatically. After a while a user was
> >>asking for Pd versions of oggcast~ and oggamp~ with some of the new
> >>features (that were not in the pdogg versions) so I made a backport of
> >>the new code to Pd.
> > 
> > 
> > i would love you forever if you return to pd some day, i appreciate you
> > work, and I'm using pdogg a lot (a lot!)
> 
> I really don't understand your point. It's extra work for me to make 
> (and maintain) Pd versions of my Max externals. But as long as people 
> don't like the fact that the Pd versions are released under the same 
> license as the Max versions I should probably stop to do that at all.
> I always thought it would be better to have a non-open external than no 
> external at all. That way at least people who don't care whether they 
> are allowed to read the source code can profit from it.

it's ok, we don't understand each other's point i think.
but here there are personal opinions about the whole thing.
I don't like Mac and Windows even less. and closed source as well.
But that's personal probably, so we can skip this from discussion.

have fun
Rama

> To be honest, one reason for me to use Max much more often than Pd (and 
> a reason for developing for Max, not Pd) is the attitude of the users. 
> Max users can accept the fact that not everything is free (as in beer or 
> in freedom or both). (Sorry, I don't want to say that all Pd users in 
> general can't do that, but there are a lot who pretend they can't.)
> In the end this strict view on the open vs. closed debate is also bad 
> for Pd because it prevents some things from being coded (or released) at 
> all.
> 
> Olaf
> 
> 
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