[PD] why bother...

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Fri Jul 4 12:04:14 CEST 2008


That looks like a very useful tool!  People have tried various stabs  
at his (gripd, xgui, etc) but I think your approach makes a lot of  
sense.  Using SVG means you can choose your tool to create the  
interface, since it is an open standard.

.hc

On Jul 3, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Andre Schmidt wrote:

> hello pd world,
>
> i have now come to the conclusion that FLOSS coding is just wasting my
> time, as i don't want to get abused by some dirty closed-source
> shameless bastards. so i won't be evolving this cool idea anymore:
>
> SimSUI - a Simple SVG User Interface - http://osku.de/simsui
>
> but as my first intention was to let it communicate with pd (add  
> OSC to
> vanilla pd already!;), i would like to dedicate that small idea/ 
> code to
> pd(-list), my first open-source love...
>
> i could say "do what ever you want with that (lousy) code", but as  
> long
> as closed-source is not illegal, every one can do what ever they want
> with every code, so no use to say the obvious...
>
> ask me again when the revolution starts!
> .andre
>
> p.s. some ass holes has/will probably software patented the idea  
> anyway,
> so why bother...
>
>
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