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

Patrick Shirkey pshirkey at boosthardware.com
Mon Aug 30 05:38:21 UTC 2010


On Sun, August 29, 2010 10:32 pm, Ronald Stewart wrote:
> Who cares Microsoft and Pro Tools both suck!
>

Well it means their is a market opportunity doesn't it?

I don't care if Avid dies a nasty death but that does provide some leeway
for some of us to gain some more customers...


> Thank you
>
> Ronald Stewart
> Creative Director
> Trinity Audio Group Inc.
> 9854 National Blvd. #322
> Los Angeles CA 90034
> 310-733-9285
> ronaldjstewart at gmail.com
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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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