Fw: big news

[Johan Meskens CS2 jmcs2]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James McCartney" <asynth at io.com>
To: <sc-users at lists.io.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:59 AM
Subject: big news


> 
> SuperCollider is a labor of love, and amazingly, one that I have been able 
> to live off of for 2.5 years. But it is not a very stable income. Now I've 
> accepted a job with a major fruit company (I wore Takeko Kawamura's 
> SuperCollider socks to the interview for good luck), and so there will be 
> some changes.
> 
> All versions of SuperCollider are now free programs.
> Copy protection is removed.
> I will release the current state of affairs with SC Server on OSX soon.
> I will release the source code to SC Server as soon as I am able.
> (website will be updated in the next few minutes)
> 
> Unfortunately due to the source code license of the MacZoop framework,(see:
>   <http://www.maczoop.com/legal.html>) it appears that, since I hacked up 
> that framework pretty extensively, I would not be able to distribute all 
> of the source code to SC 2 & 3 on OS9 without substantially recoding it.
> 
> I will continue to do some tweaking on SC in my spare time, but obviously 
> I will have a day job and will not be able to sustain the level of work 
> that I have in the past. I will finish SC Server on OSX soon. 
> SuperCollider or the ideas in it will always  be my preferred way to make 
> my own noises, so I will always be doing something in that direction.
> 
> Actually in an ideal world I would have done this long ago, but I could 
> not make SC free and still pay my rent, so it had to be commercial. I have 
> wanted to make it free for some time, because I know that it is only a 
> matter of time before someone tries to copy or do something like it. And 
> for pride, I wouldn't like for people to be using something else inferior 
> just because it was free.
> 
> I can't tell you how much I appreciate the support I've had from all of my 
> customers. Without that support, SuperCollider would not exist. I hope no 
> one who has paid feels cheated that it is now free. I would like, out of 
> good will,to make a refund to people who have paid in the last month, 
> though it will take a little time.
> 
> Since you will all soon have access to the source code for SC Server, and 
> a larger user community due to the new low low price, I think that this 
> turn of events will be a positive one for SuperCollider.
> 
> Finally a Zappa quote:
> "This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER.. As you can see MUSIC [software] can get 
> you pretty f***ed up... Take a tip from Joe, do like he did, hock your 
> imaginary guitar and get a good job... Joe did, and he's a happy guy now,"
> 
> 
> (I thought about calling this post "test, ignore", but decided against 
> that. ;)
> 
> --
> --- james mccartney   james at audiosynth.com   <http://www.audiosynth.com>
> SuperCollider - a real time synthesis programming language for the 
> PowerMac.
> <ftp://www.audiosynth.com/pub/updates/SC2.2.15.sea.hqx>
> 
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