On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Linux Lingam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Adobe's audition is actually a prior shareware called goldwave. The expert is right that audition and audacity cannot be equated, since > audacity is significantly superior to audition. Audition was earlier called 'Cool Edit Pro'. GoldWave is another audio editor, but I am not sure if either of these were shareware at any time. Cool Edit 96 was shareware, if I remember, and its new version (Cool Edit 2000) may well be shareware, too. > But... I feel it is easier for govts, PSU, and academia to buy > expensive proprietory software worth several lakhs or crores, rather > than pay FOSS professionals services fees for deploying free software. > Also, no one gets fired or transferred for not sticking their necks > out and trying to save organizations costs by moving to free software. > It probably not easier, but it's very profitable. When AIR's new Broadcasting House came up in Delhi some years ago, they switched to digital in the form of a very expensive piece of French crap which crashed more often than Blue Line buses. This, while AIR's R&D department has developed perfectly good audio software of its own. Sajan On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Linux Lingam <[email protected]> wrote: > Kishore Bhargava knows of a few professional sound studios that work > with 100% foss. He also delivered a talk at TEDx on digital > photography and more with Foss. Gaurav Mishra works with blender3d to > handle sophisticated modelling, rendering and animation. IIT-B has > authored fully-interactive and animated CBTs published over the web, > using FOSS tools, for their OSCAR project. > Adobe's audition is actually a prior shareware called goldwave. The > expert is right that audition and audacity cannot be equated, since > audacity is significantly superior to audition. > But... I feel it is easier for govts, PSU, and academia to buy > expensive proprietory software worth several lakhs or crores, rather > than pay FOSS professionals services fees for deploying free software. > This is what is happening in DU, for instance. > Also, no one gets fired or transferred for not sticking their necks > out and trying to save organizations costs by moving to free software. > I'd like to lay a 50-paise bet the said organization will soon migrate > back to proprietory software, unless the thinking is deep and > thorough. > > oops! Did i start something here? > > niyam > > -- > niyam bhushan > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in >
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