[linux-audio-user] Ableton live user

Levi D. Burton ldb at puresimplicity.net
Tue Apr 26 16:46:02 EDT 2005



Andreas Kuckartz wrote:

>Levi D. Burton wrote:
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>>I understand that commercial software developers have
>>incentive for writing the apps (they are getting paid).  I also
>>understand that most linux audio software is a hobby for the developers.
>>When I say "probably never will be..", my point is that commercial
>>software developers simply have more time and resources.
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>It is not that clear cut. For example: to which camp do you think does Linus
>Torvalds belong (Linux kernel / OSDL) ? What about Takashi Iwai (ALSA / SuSE)?
>Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (PlanetCCRMA / CCRMA)?
>
>Believe it or not but there are "commercial" software developers who get paid
>for writing Open Source software. And quite a few successful Open Source
>projects are mainly developed by such "commercial" software developers. But it
>is true, the number of such projects is small when you only count audio
>projects.
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Let me know when Cakewalk Sonar and all the Native Instruments stuff 
goes open-source.





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