Re: [Consortium] Re: Fwd: [edmemo] Re. Letter in August Edition from Daniel James

Hi, Neil is passionate and despite his misinterpretations he is articulate. In that sense it's a potentially interesting letter. To bad it's being sent to the choir--us. With Neil's permission, it could be discussed on the SOS forums so that many people can learn about our preferred licenses. We are dabbling in the audio world which is certainly populated mostly by people who are niave about our model. JACK and Ardour are a small bridge into the proprietary world because of jackosx. It has been explained to me that Coreaudio applications are JACK clients by default. The Mac demographic is a much larger body of users than those who use Linux. We can spread the awareness of our preferred licensing and tools amongst that crowd. Consider OSX with a JACK client graph of Digital Performer -> jackosx -> T-Racks. People use what they are familiar with and Mac users know nothing about Ardour or JAMin. JAMin could become an accepted tool on OSX. It can remain unknown or even drift deeper into obscurity which would be a shame. That's a pretty bold statement but it isn't without merit. In my opinion we would better understand the business landscape that we are building upon by seeing Neil's comments as an opportunity. We have a righteous cause. The consortium has an objective and that means it is a proactive delivery vehicle. I think it's excellent that Daniel published a provocative letter and that Neil has responded. We have not earned more than that. ron http://lists.linuxaudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/consortium __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com