[PD] software license for pd general patch?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, João Pais wrote:

> considering that the person wants not to use only max, many of those 
> reasons above are environmental constraints decided outside, that the 
> user has no control about

Environmental constraints are real constraints, and are as worthy of 
attention, even though they are not technical problems, or are only 
indirectly so.

> considering we're speaking about the "normal person", that doesn't 
> either say "I want max" or "I want pd",

I don't think that you're talking about something that is the usual case. 
I think that most of people exposed to either max or pd will be so through 
some kind of university classroom, and most likely will be forced to use 
the software that the teacher decided to use, or that the teacher was 
forced to use in the first place, by whatever regulation of the 
department.

However, there are several meaningful concepts of "normal" or "most" that 
go with the set of people we consider, and to the extent that you can 
ignore people that will only have ever used max/pd in the context of 
courses, you could be talking about only long-term max/pd users, and 
that's something quite entirely different... though they often get started 
with max by decree, and then say "I want to not have to relearn this 
stuff, so I will stick with Max".

> some enhancements were made in vvvv (kind of Pd but for visuals)

do you have some kind of audio-centric view of pd here ?... sounds like 
some kind of Pd-vanilla idea that Pd is for audio, and by opposition to 
that ("unlike pd"), vvvv is for visuals.

BTW, my first years of Pd were strictly with visuals, and though I 
gradually incorporated tiny bits of audio in my practice, it was really 
only this year that I really felt that I was doing a significant amount of 
Pd audio, a big audio patch comparable to the big graphics patches I've 
been doing for a long time... some things many times bigger than any 
previous audio patch I had made.

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