[PD] Is open source better?

[Pall Thayer]

This was a faculty grant at a US arts-focused college. I would say that 95%
of students, 80% of faculty use Apple products. That really doesn't matter
though. The project is out there. It can be ported to any platform if
people want. More than anything, it was a proof-of-concept project.

If it bothers you that this was developed as an IOS app then, by all means,
take it and turn it into an Android app.


On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Simon Wise <simonzwise at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/02/14 13:36, Pall Thayer wrote:
>
>> This is where things enter into the odd world of academia. In all honesty,
>> I think our application for the particular grant that was available was an
>> "outlier". The grant came with caveats. Projects were to target technology
>> that would likely be used by faculty and students and the resulting work
>> (publications or, in our case, software) would be released under open
>> licenses. As far as I could tell, ours was the only project that was
>> producing actual software. We were able to pay the Apple Dev fee for one
>> year from our funds but our application wasn't ready for distribution
>> within that time so we never submitted it to the app store and have
>> released the source code instead. We were never big fans of distributing
>> it
>> through the app store anyway.
>>
>
> Well I guess the target platform is jail-broken Apples then.
>
> Re academia ... I spent the last few years studying in an Australian
> university, maths and computing ... the students were a reasonable mix of
> linux, mac and windows users, not sure about the android/iOS split, while
> the staff and teaching had a somewhat stronger emphasis on linux and open
> source than the students. Matlab was the main exception to this.
>
> As a target platform android certainly has a much bigger user base
> worldwide than jail-broken iOS, though the apples may be much better for
> some audio uses.
>
>
> Simon
>



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