[PD] OpenSC

[christian adam hresko]

i think this message is relevant to anyone involved in electronic music, 
programming, dsp, etc...


>
> SuperCollider is a labor of love, and amazingly, one that I have been 
> able to live off of for 2.5 years. But it is not a very stable income. 
> Now I've accepted a job with a major fruit company (I wore Takeko 
> Kawamura's SuperCollider socks to the interview for good luck), and so 
> there will be some changes.
>
> All versions of SuperCollider are now free programs.
> Copy protection is removed.
> I will release the current state of affairs with SC Server on OSX soon.
> I will release the source code to SC Server as soon as I am able.
> (website will be updated in the next few minutes)
>
> Unfortunately due to the source code license of the MacZoop 
> framework,(see:
>  <http://www.maczoop.com/legal.html>) it appears that, since I hacked 
> up that framework pretty extensively, I would not be able to distribute 
> all of the source code to SC 2 & 3 on OS9 without substantially 
> recoding it.
>
> I will continue to do some tweaking on SC in my spare time, but 
> obviously I will have a day job and will not be able to sustain the 
> level of work that I have in the past. I will finish SC Server on OSX 
> soon. SuperCollider or the ideas in it will always  be my preferred way 
> to make my own noises, so I will always be doing something in that 
> direction.
>
> Actually in an ideal world I would have done this long ago, but I could 
> not make SC free and still pay my rent, so it had to be commercial. I 
> have wanted to make it free for some time, because I know that it is 
> only a matter of time before someone tries to copy or do something like 
> it. And for pride, I wouldn't like for people to be using something 
> else inferior just because it was free.
>
> I can't tell you how much I appreciate the support I've had from all of 
> my customers. Without that support, SuperCollider would not exist. I 
> hope no one who has paid feels cheated that it is now free. I would 
> like, out of good will,to make a refund to people who have paid in the 
> last month, though it will take a little time.
>
> Since you will all soon have access to the source code for SC Server, 
> and a larger user community due to the new low low price, I think that 
> this turn of events will be a positive one for SuperCollider.
>
> Finally a Zappa quote:
> "This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER.. As you can see MUSIC [software] can 
> get you pretty f***ed up... Take a tip from Joe, do like he did, hock 
> your imaginary guitar and get a good job... Joe did, and he's a happy 
> guy now,"
>
>
> (I thought about calling this post "test, ignore", but decided against 
> that. ;)
>
> --
> --- james mccartney   james at audiosynth.com   <http://www.audiosynth.com>
> SuperCollider - a real time synthesis programming language for the 
> PowerMac.
> <ftp://www.audiosynth.com/pub/updates/SC2.2.15.sea.hqx>
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