I used CoolEdit and GoldWave together, so got confused on which one adobe bought. The other two problems that must be addressed before switching over to foss multimedia:
1) Creative professionals in india tend to blur and confuse their discipline with their software-skills. Expert with 'corel-draw', 'photoshop', 'LogicPro' is more important to say than 'vector-illustration', 'photo-editing and pixel-imaging' and 'audio & midi sequencing'. Thus, ten years ago designers at Mahiti felt very insecure about moving to gimp. Likewise, the design & layout dept at LinuxForYou won't even consider moving to inkscape,gimp, and scribus, even though it may be demonstrated and proved to them FOSS can handle their workflow. 2) in the unlikely event an organization does move to FOSS for multimedia and creativity, hiring new staff may become a bigger challenge. Creative professionals tend to hone their software-skills and techniques on-the-job, year-after-year. To be plucked away from their mainstream tools is almost professional suicide, unless paradoxically, the alternative become the mainstream first. Let's add a third aspect: since creative staff tend to change jobs frequently (discounting global meltdown scenarios), an organization needs a panel of internal and external resources of people, to regularly orient new staff to use foss tools and techniques. Sometimes, when the progenitor of foss-adoption quits, the baby gets thrown out with with blender3d and bath water. thus, you need a short and medium-term strategy that is deep and thoughtful to affect a successful migration to foss in creativity. in fact, foss hasn't yet won the expected and widespread adoption i had hoped in the no-brainer category from the previous decade: openoffice.org vs msoffice. Plus, even after President Abdul Kalam's emphatic endorsement and adoption of foss, the President's office has moved back to prop. software, according to public reports. in contrast, animation FX houses that cater to hollywood films have a highly-complex array of foss, foss-based proprietory tools, and trade-secret tools. Yet they manage to sustain their model due to strong IT and HR policies. A successful adoption for IOTA is quite possible only with a holistic and firm strategy in place that addresses all dimensions. I would indded love to see this CBT project succeed. regards to everyone, niyam uncle, postcards from the edge of FOSS -- niyam bhushan _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
