No one wants to deny that there is a need for apps which can take down [insert favorite commercial audio/sequencing program here]. We will have them soon enough. I don't think anyone has tried to disuade anyone from working on such apps, or from using them once they become available. I personally have been using (yes, actually doing work with) Ardour of late, and and I look forward to its further development. I just wanted to point out that for those of us stuck-up elitist academic purists who don't particularly care about the commercial viability of our work, Linux is already the place to be. I can't speak for anyone else on this one, but I personally didn't mean to imply that such people are the only ones who should be using Linux for audio, and I certainly didn't want to start a flamefest. -dgm
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Mark Constable wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 03:07, Jussi Laako wrote: > > Joachim Backhaus wrote: > > > Yes, if for example Britney Spears says she uses Linux > > > for her album EVERYTHING would change!!! :D > > > > At least I would probably change to FreeBSD... :) > > Please do. If you don't realize the importance and implications > of widespread acceptence of Linux in the tacky commercial world > of A/V production then go use *BSD. *I* (FWIW) would like to have > the option of making a living competing in that tacky world, if I > chose to do so, and I don't buy the argument that somehow having > really competitive and usable applications will distort the essence > of purely academic sonic amusement... that software is already > established, great, but where's the commercially usable apps ? > > If I seriously commit to spending my time producing A/V content > then I *must* make that endeavour also pay my bills or else I, > and my A/V efforts, will evaporate. But to do so I need standard > commercially competative tools that do not yet exist on Linux. > Again, I could get some of the available tools to mostly work with > an obscene amount of background effort, but I cannot possibly expect > other members of a coop or group to also figure out how to use CVS > and compile apps that... might work, nor use academic trinkets that > provide no substantial way to interoperate with standard commercial > production tools. > > I am an open source biggot but if Linux can't deliver in another > 12 months I'm going to have to adopt OSX, which by then will > probably have a huge swag of seriously usable tools, even if I > have to pay for them and give up any pretext of tweaking the code, > the need to actually be productive will override any warm and > fuzzy feeling about using open source. > > Meanwhile, (b)millions of dollars worth of content is NOT being > produced on Linux platforms... hence the spinoff of that turnover > is also NOT coming back to the Linux community. We all need to eat. > > --markc > >
