[LAU] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

[Simon Wise]

On 07/02/13 20:50, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Neil C Smith wrote:
>
>>> "To the extent that local law grants You the right
>>
>> So, complying with the law is now a sign of more liberal behaviour? :-)
>
> Sure :)
>
> In terms of a big corporation, which Adobe is, there's a huge
> difference between "No, no, no -- you can't do that under any
> circumstances, or else" and "You can do that if your local law is fine
> about that, but do talk to us first". It takes a generation of lawyers
> (literally) to go from the previous to the current state of affairs.

Adobe is an interesting example in this context. Consider the PDF format.

I don't know the motivations behind their actions, though their intention to 
make the protocol available for others to re-implement was very clear. This was 
years before Steinberg introduced VST. Adobe certainly helped to make its own 
protocol the almost ubiquitous choice by doing so (and it remained profitable 
for them long term because of that ... they have sold many copies of the 
editor). They were a lot smarter than Steinberg, they explicitly allowed 
alternative implementations from the start while the protocol remained theirs. 
This example was readily available for Steinberg to follow either originally or 
later when VST was already established as one of the standards for plugins and 
they considered possible options as Paul described in another post.


Simon