I keep spelling Ton's last name wrong.. It's Ton Roosendaal . I've always had a hard time with that last name. Anyhow, Ton's one of the kindest people.. I'm sure if he doesn't respond to Paul it will be because he's too busy. But Ton was in Paul's position sort of when blender was in freeware, and Ton was asking $60K to develop blender each year. He eventually got to pursue blender as a commercial/freeware project, with about 5 million seed funding.. But that's what led to the effort to release the sources, cause NaN went bankrupt. I'm out of touch with Ton, but I'm sure he's still developing the software mostly himself because he's a bit of a perfectionist (and concerned about it's development because it's his baby). But I'm not sure how much of the development is being shared with the community. I pressured after the sources were released, that there should be more involvement with the users on what features should be in blender. But Ton pushed the point that only those who develop get the features they want in. But somewhere, maybe when I left forums, something happened, and it seems they found a way to work better with the community.
I'm not suggesting Paul get involved in the same way that was done with blender, but that he may find a better way to receive support than especting direct support, like providing a product aside from the development, like pre-purchased DVD's and a name in the credits of some music work. Remember what made Jonathan Coulton popular? Song a week and puting the result into creative commons. If Paul could do that with his software, distribute the sources with a musical CD or a Video, released in creative commons and liner notes with contributors and pre-purchasers in the credits, that would probably fund Ardour's development better. He might have to change his name, or go under a nickname, because there is an American songwriter named Paul Davis who made a lot of songs in the 70s and 80s, like "I go crazy", "cool night" and "'65 love affair". But now that Paul Davis passed away (RIP), there should be less confusion, just may make releasing a commercial CD harder.
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