23 Sep
2016
23 Sep
'16
5:03 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com
One can draw reasonable conclusions based on the evidence at hand.
wrote:
I suppose that their marketing department has decided that Linux
Developers/Users don't represent a big enough share of the market to
justify committing more resources to the platform.
You have no idea what their marketing department has decided. Admit it.
However JACK also runs on the other two main platforms so what is their
rational behind completely ignoring it altogether while committing
resources to creating a competing API?
How many times is it necessary for someone to explain that JACK and AL are
NOT competing APIs ?
Keep in mind that they have explicitly stated that Ableton Live will
NEVER
run on Linux. It seems a bit hypocritical to me that highly regarded
people from this community are proposing to add support for the new
protocol and at the same time questioning why there is (still)
antagonism
towards Ableton.
I have no idea what statement you are referring to, but if I was to guess
it might be when Gerhard Behles, one of the company's (and software's)
founders was at LAC in Berlin in 2007. Which means basically before
Android
took over the world and Chromebooks and ...
If so, this is a statement that is getting on for a
decade of aging, and
it
is absurd to view this as policy. You have absolutely no idea what Ableton
is and is not doing with Linux, or what its policies (if there are indeed
any) toward Linux are. I suggest you regard that statement as a bit of
off-its-time sensible marketing wisdom from nearly a decade ago, and move
on.
If Harrison, Autodesk and others CAN do it then why "CAN'T" Ableton
especially now that they are "apparently" embracing Open Source, devoting
resources and even have some "good will" from some highly regarded Linux
Audio Developers.
Seems like a marketing blunder on their part in regards to winning hearts
and minds in the overall Linux sector but other people view the situation
with more sinister implications.
On the flipside if adopting Link into the Linux Audio Stack means Ableton
feels more committed to LINUX and makes some tangible movements in this
direction then we might have a publicity coup on our hands. However I'm
not betting on that outcome due to their record so far.
IMO, the time/effort required to support Link across the board could be
better spent on fixing the looping issue in JACK.
If/When there is some momentum for Link adoption I will update the Linux
Audio Stack diagram to maintain transparency but I am not sold on the real
value of Link to Linux Audio at this point. Seems like a one sided affair
where they get brand promotion without having to actually commit to Linux
Audio.
Or to quote from Captain Hook this time "Bad form Peter".
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
Other proprietary companies have no problems releasing their software to
run on Linux.
And many others are NOT. So what would that mean? (that's a rhetorical
question)