[linux-audio-dev] promoting LAC 2007

[Pieter Palmers]

Dave Phillips wrote:
> Lars Luthman wrote:
> 
>> Wasn't this years LAC sponsored by Ableton though?
>>  
>>
> They are listed as one of the partners. AFAIK they've shown no public 
> interest in Linux, nor have they announced any intention to port their 
> products to Linux. Perhaps they made some statement at the conference ? 
> Anyone know exactly what their interest in Linux amounts to ?

They didn't express anything special during the conference. One of their 
founders (at least I think he is) was there, and apparently he's an old 
student of TU-Berlin, and TU-Berlin just asked.

During the panel discussion he basically said that the "sell 
shrinkwrapped boxes" model works pretty fine for them and that he 
doesn't see any reasons for them to change. And I think he also said 
that he didn't see any opportunities for open source in that field.

Now that I write it down like this, I'm even more puzzled as to why they 
actually sponsored. Maybe my mental recorder is somehow broken and I 
don't remember things correctly.

Pieter