[LAD] Fwd: Claim: Microsoft Pressured Digidesign to Deny Support of GNU/Linux

Ronald Stewart ronaldjstewart at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 05:32:26 UTC 2010


Who cares Microsoft and Pro Tools both suck!

Thank you

Ronald Stewart
Creative Director
Trinity Audio Group Inc.
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Patrick Shirkey <
pshirkey at boosthardware.com> wrote:

>
> On Sun, August 29, 2010 6:58 pm, Paul Davis wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
> > <mle+la at mega-nerd.com <mle%2Bla at mega-nerd.com>> wrote:
> >
> >> The reponses to that post are all very keen on the idea of having
> >> the Digidesign software and hardware available for Linux. They are
> >> also spot on that once the Digidesign stuff is running on Mac OSX,
> >> the move to Linux would be relatively simple.
> >
> > this whole story seems very unlikely to me.
> >
> > its *not* simple to port from OS X to Linux. if you use OpenGL that
> > helps quite a bit, but the
> > audio infrastructure is quite different.
> >
> > its also ridiculous to comment on OS X "moving away from its Unix
> > heritage". OS X is still based on Darwin which is still as close to
> > its "unix heritage" (or as far away) as it ever was.
> >
> > this doesn't mean that i think that they do not have PT running on
> > Linux BUT note that Digidesign (the brand is going away, its "Avid"
> > more and more) have been using Linux for some of their products for
> > some time now. they had a server/FTP product for sharing audio that
> > has run on Linux since it was released.
> >
> > whoever posted this is likely an example of a number of my audio
> > engineer friends: they know just enough about computers for their
> > knowledge to be dangerous, and confusing.
>
>
> One thing is clear about Avid is that they are in significant financial
> trouble and are basically spending all their money on marketing instead of
> actually making anything of value anymore.
>
> That usually signifies a company in significant distress.
>
>
>
> --
> Patrick Shirkey
> Boost Hardware Ltd.
>
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