Actually, she was offering a better deal -- a whole CD for $1000 -- but didn't offer unlimited distribution after purchase.
I can imagine a band recording an album "on spec", actually, and I'm pretty sure it's happened already. But you'd need to have a very strong established fanbase.
Have you ever played Dungeons of Daggorath for the Tandy CoCo? One of the earliest first-person real-time 3D games, and still one of the most intensely creepy and haunting gaming experiences I've ever had, thanks in part to the graphics (as well as the game's terrific use of sound). I think the abstracted, pseudo-wireframe graphics made the monsters even more menacing.
(No need for an emulator to try this one -- PC and Linux versions are available here, and you can get the OS X port here.)
The end of support for Tiger was mentioned in a poll on the VLC forums a while back (down for some reason, so here's a Google cache copy). The announcement was handled in a fairly tactless way, actually:
We are trying to build a world-class modern media performance and streaming framework, and that excludes limitting ourselves to the lowest common denominator of all operating systems.
I am sure we will get our share of whining with this proposal, especially if it is implemented. Let it be known that I do not care. When millions of people use your software, whining users are a more often than daily occurence, no matter how excellent/crappy your software may be. You simply cannot satisfy everyone, especially when your project is constrained by the time and motivation of a few core open-source developpers.
I don't know about you, but when I see attitude like this from a developer, my reaction isn't "Gee, this is a project which I hope succeeds, and which I want to support." Which is a shame, because VLC is a good project, but has been undermined on more than one occasion by tactless developers. Why needlessly alienate people? One could just as easily have said --
"Unfortunately, we don't have any resources to continue supporting 10.4.x, so the only way to reinstate Tiger support would be working, user-contributed patches to bring the Tiger version up to speed."
But I guess that wouldn't have put the hungry, grasping, whining lusers in their place, eh?
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Actually, she was offering a better deal -- a whole CD for $1000 -- but didn't offer unlimited distribution after purchase.
I can imagine a band recording an album "on spec", actually, and I'm pretty sure it's happened already. But you'd need to have a very strong established fanbase.
Have you ever played Dungeons of Daggorath for the Tandy CoCo? One of the earliest first-person real-time 3D games, and still one of the most intensely creepy and haunting gaming experiences I've ever had, thanks in part to the graphics (as well as the game's terrific use of sound). I think the abstracted, pseudo-wireframe graphics made the monsters even more menacing.
(No need for an emulator to try this one -- PC and Linux versions are available here, and you can get the OS X port here.)
I don't know about you, but when I see attitude like this from a developer, my reaction isn't "Gee, this is a project which I hope succeeds, and which I want to support." Which is a shame, because VLC is a good project, but has been undermined on more than one occasion by tactless developers. Why needlessly alienate people? One could just as easily have said --
"Unfortunately, we don't have any resources to continue supporting 10.4.x, so the only way to reinstate Tiger support would be working, user-contributed patches to bring the Tiger version up to speed."
But I guess that wouldn't have put the hungry, grasping, whining lusers in their place, eh?
Apparently Curt Vendel and Atarimuseum.com deserve the real credit for this release.