[linux-audio-user] ebay guy: looks like he figured it out

Mark Knecht mknecht at controlnet.com
Fri Dec 5 12:53:30 EST 2003


> Audacity is a trivial download. There's no benefit to having it on CD
> by itself. A value-added CD packed with royalty free samples might be
> a different story, and the possibility of producing that has been
> discussed on the Audacity lists.
>
> Cheers
>
> Daniel
>

My last post on this subject and then I'm done.

Quote "There's no benefit to having it on CD by itself."

Please do not think that you know what is, or is not, of benefit to someone
else. What about a person that doesn't have a CD burner? What about a person
who wants a backup copy so when the next release comes out and doesn't work
he can go back? What about Grandma putting it under the Christmas tree for
her grand kid? There are lots of 'reasonable' reasons for others that might
not be 'reasonable' to you.

So often people on these lists, and I'm not speaking specifically of you
here Daniel, are *so* technically adept that they just plain forget what the
real world is like for non-technical people. You don't know what people are
doing out there. You don't know what their reasons are for wanting this. To
many people this sort of purchase will be exactly like buying a tabloid at
the checkout counter. I don't do that, but I don't propose taking away
anyone's right to do it, nor do I spend any time worrying about whether they
got their moneys worth. That's their business, not mine.

This guy obviously got the message from you and others here through Ebay and
has changed the way he's making his offer. That's positive. If someone wants
to but it, I think that's great. If you want to sell Audacity, I think
that's great too. Anything that gets people using the software is probably
better in the long run for Open Source. I've turned so many people on to the
few Windows versions of Open Source stuff that exist, like Audacity and
ZynAddSubFx. I prefer to use them under Linux, but most musicians don't have
a Linux box. I see this as one good way to eventually bring people to the
Linux world. They start with this stuff on Windows, but they know it runs on
Linux, and then maybe, someday, when they have a choice to make about
operating systems they won't say 'there is no software for Linux'.

Bye,
Mark








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