[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] First public release of Lindrum v 0.5.1

[Ken]

The difference is, they have armys of programmers whereas the open source
apps only have a few at most with the skill to work on apps as elaborate as
say Cubase or similar.  I think it would be far better to collaborate on
Linux Audios' weak areas and go after equivalants in the Win world.  Its
going to take a group effort.  Try playing with Sonar and Reaktor together
for a bit and see how easy and tight these systems have become.
Ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Robillard" <drobilla at connect.carleton.ca>
To: "The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List"
<linux-audio-dev at music.columbia.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] First public release of Lindrum v 0.5.1


> On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 07:07, guenter geiger wrote:
> > Lack of collaboration is one of the weaknesses of the free software
> > development (peculiarly enough it is considered one of its strenghts),
> > especially with audio software.
>
> A weakness compared to what?  Proprietary software is /definitely/ not
> immune to this problem (in fact, I'd say it's far worse - there's no
> collaboration whatsoever).  Is is really a weakness of free software if
> non-free software has the same problem?
>
> I don't hear people complaining about Steinberg and Emagic 'duplicating
> effort'.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I do think duplication of effort is best avoided if
> possible, but I don't think it's a "weakness of free software".
>
> -Dave
>
>