[LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2014-03-30 at 14:43 +0200, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> >> I will add there are exceptions in our community, and i will wave the
> >> flag for Fons, Filipe, John, Robin, and Christian
> > 
> > Rui, Harry and many other developers care a lot about user feedback
> > too :). That's the good thing when using Linux audio. The chance to talk
> > to the developers of proprietary software is virtually zero.
> 
> in this regard, you may want to distinguish between a company of 50000
> people like yamaha (steinberg), 3000 people like avid (protools) and
> companies like bitwig or cockos (each having about 3 developers).

Ok, true and while some companies don't care about the averaged
customer, they care if you call them when working for another company.
When I worked for Brauner I could call some companies and they listened
to me, but they won't listen to me, when I call them privately. That's
not bad at all, since if you call company B while working for company A
the averaged user will benefit too. But if you talk to companies there
always is a communication chain, while for Linux audio we usually can
directly get in contact with the developers, that's a nice advantage.