[LAU] Look ma, I'm in the paper :)

[jonetsu]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 09:29:49 -0700 (PDT)
Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Nov 2016, jonetsu wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 07:35:05 -0700 (PDT)
> > Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:
> >
> >>> Every single notion brought in your text can be matched by u-he,
> >>> Harrison, discoDSP, Bitwig, all who are makers of commercial
> >>> products that runs on Linux.
> >
> >> Hmm, easy to say. Many of the new features in Ardour are there
> >> because someone who was outside of the development team looked at
> >> the code and added a feature they wanted... and became an Ardour
> >> developer :)
> >
> > It is not easy to say.  It is backed up. Go through the threads :
> >
> > u-he
> >
> > http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=31
> ... etc. etc.
> 
> > And then there are the private support emails, about which I have no
> > complaints.
> 
> Not what I said at all. I should have known from past replys not to
> bother saying anything. jonetsu to spam box...

The reply is exactly to what you have said.  You have said that people
outside of the development team looked at the code and added a feature.

With all considerations of commercial software taken into account, the
examples given in the reply do listen to what people, users, say.
perhaps even more so than in Open Source sine their income depends
directly on it.  The food on the table depends on it.

Furthermore, it is not streamlined as I will a dd a feature to the
software project because I think it is good.  It does not work exactly
like that, which is a limited vision.  "Chances are still slim in Open
Source to have someone saying after reading a post that's a great idea
I will implement it.  Then there will be discussions with leads and
they might refuse.  They might say that's not good code.  They might
say we have other plans,  It's not as easy as saying the principle
entails."

I stand by the reply.

I do not block on spam box, I always keep it Open.