21 Jun
2003
21 Jun
'03
11:47 p.m.
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:22:37 -0400
"Ivica Bukvic" <ico(a)fuse.net> wrote:
Thanks! This really helped me see straight again :-).
However this brings up one interesting point/problem. Due to GPL nature
of Linux software, many of our efforts will seamlessly bleed into OS X
world since there are no restrictions as to which platform this software
is run on, and Apple made an explicit move to target open-source
developers and/or users by implementing Darwin and underlying
almost-Unix system.
To me this is a problem. Since, all our efforts and time will not lure
more people to Linux. Rather, our software will (perhaps) become popular
(pro-tools killer or whatever), but not necessarily on a Linux platform.
In the end, we will not reap what we have sown. Users on the OS X will
be theoretically able to run Ardour as much as we will, especially now
that jackd has been ported to OS X. To me, this does not seem right.
I really don't see this as a problem.
For my two libraries (libsndfile and libsamplerate) I'm glad to see them
run on OSX.
For GUI stuff, someone is going to have to either write a native GUI or
suffer the VERY slow speed of X11 on top of the laready slow OSX.
Erik
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