[PD]

[david casal]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 integer at www.god-emil.dk wrote:

> pd isnt free. [perhaps if one is 99 prozent brain free]

sweeping statements are polluting and opinions are cheap. you advertise
like coca-cola.
 
> is pd better +? well ___... different shades of  u gli ness.
> most of the data worth anything has been authored by `3rd parties`.

it's called open source collaboration. see gnu/linux.

> overall max + msp + pd + gem = rigid \ uneventful + ultra ugggggllllllyy xy refuse.
> as most everything else in the digital domain.

thanks to Thomas Grill + Larry Troxler, you can write Python and Scheme
within PD, which makes it quite the opposite of 'rigid', and in fact
offers the user a way to do almost anything, wihout paying a license fee
(as opposed to max, NATO, etc.). This means 'ugly' and 'rigid' now depend
on you state of mind and skills as a programmer, not on the framework.

the real refuse of the 'digital domain' are the ultra-opinionated
pseudocharacters who pile hipocritical releases of
their own commercial, cryptically wonderful software, and who blame the
tools to appear to be the cool, alternative solution.

get on with it. 

dc

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