[PD] Is open source better?

[Pall Thayer]

https://github.com/pallthayer/gesturalmusic


On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Pall Thayer <pallthay at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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