1 Mar
2004
1 Mar
'04
3:06 p.m.
The difference is, they have armys of programmers whereas the open source
apps only have a few at most with the skill to work on apps as elaborate as
say Cubase or similar. I think it would be far better to collaborate on
Linux Audios' weak areas and go after equivalants in the Win world. Its
going to take a group effort. Try playing with Sonar and Reaktor together
for a bit and see how easy and tight these systems have become.
Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Robillard" <drobilla(a)connect.carleton.ca>
To: "The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List"
<linux-audio-dev(a)music.columbia.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] First public release of Lindrum v 0.5.1
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 07:07, guenter geiger wrote:
Lack of collaboration is one of the weaknesses of
the free software
development (peculiarly enough it is considered one of its strenghts),
especially with audio software.
A weakness compared to what? Proprietary software is /definitely/ not
immune to this problem (in fact, I'd say it's far worse - there's no
collaboration whatsoever). Is is really a weakness of free software if
non-free software has the same problem?
I don't hear people complaining about Steinberg and Emagic 'duplicating
effort'.
Don't get me wrong, I do think duplication of effort is best avoided if
possible, but I don't think it's a "weakness of free software".
-Dave