[PD] Re: [PD-dev] SourceForge "Donations"

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Thu Jan 29 04:46:20 CET 2004


On Sunday, Jan 25, 2004, at 05:07 America/New_York, Olaf Matthes wrote:

> marius schebella wrote:
>
>> it is good that Pd is free and open source, in that way there is no
>> financial barrier to use it (only technical, ....) BUT: i still dont
>> understand, why software should be free at all???
> That's a good point. I have some code (i.e. externals) I don't want to  
> give away for free (because it took so much time to code them), but  
> the impression about the average Pd user one gets when reading the  
> mailing list suggest that selling closed-source Pd externals is  
> something one would get 'killed' for.
> My solution was to switch to Max/MSP. There seems to be a completely  
> different attitute towards open-source among Max/MSP users. Nobody  
> cries "where is the source code?" in case I release an external  
> without sources and nobody complains when I decide to sell my stuff  
> instead of giving it away for free. But I also see the point that  
> having to pay 500,- USD for Max is to much for some people. On the  
> other hand I find it a reasonable price because I know how much work  
> it is to even support such a big software.

So you would take Pd and all of the contributions of so many people  
without paying, then feel justified in charging someone else for your  
additions to Pd?  The best way to 'pay' for Pd is contribute some of  
your own labor to it.

.hc

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