[PD] PD usability

[Thomas Grill]

Well, to me that sounds a bit too much like "on a mission". Why does "the
word" PD have to be spreaded to a larger audience?
Isn't it rather the wish for a perfect system for one's own needs, be it
this or that one?
I'm also my conviction that a really good performance system can't be
designed by a developer doing it for the "user" - it can only be done by
someone who is using it on a daily basis.

T

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Lavallée" <odradek at videotron.ca>
To: "pd-list" <pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [PD] PD usability


> Le mer 12/02/2003 à 14:12, Yves Degoyon a écrit :
>
> > why keeping that distinction over and over between
> > users and programmers ???
>
> Because that's what users wants, and because sometimes we must deal with
> them. I'd really like to simply ignore them, but that's not always
> possible. They don't want help, they want fancy products, that's how
> they've been raised. They see me as a programmer (which I'm not) because
> I can install, configure, use, integrate and modify many types of
> softwares on different machines. So they want me to sell them a candy
> software they can chew on until the next software realease, or they want
> me to help them use a candy software, which I don't want too. They are
> totally integrated in the market economy, I'm not. Culture clash.
>
> > i was born a user...
>
> We all did, but you evolved as a programmer. 99.9% of the population
> won't. So either we keep PD only as a research or hobbyist tool, or we
> try to put some sugar on it to please all those "users" out there. At
> some point they'll hopefully agree why PD (or jMax) are better tools for
> reasons they don't want to understand now. We could even make commercial
> products based on PD, if its license allows it, because that's the only
> language most users really understand now. It's being done with many
> other free softwares, so why not PD? The MSP plugin for Max is PD, so
> that should be possible to sell a "better" PD. I don't care if they copy
> and use the commercial version (they would for sure), because the goal
> would be to made them switch to the free version. It would bring PD to a
> larger audience while keeping it free. The market is certainly not too
> small. It would give university students access to softwares they
> usually can't afford or are reluctent to even try. The advent of the OSX
> platform is giving us an opportunity we should consider. Maybe I simply
> don't understand what the market economy is all about...
>
> --
> Marc
>
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