27 Mar
2007
27 Mar
'07
12:19 p.m.
Hallo,
Pieter Palmers hat gesagt: // Pieter Palmers wrote:
They didn't express anything special during the
conference. One of their
founders (at least I think he is) was there, and apparently he's an old
student of TU-Berlin, and TU-Berlin just asked.
During the panel discussion he basically said that the "sell
shrinkwrapped boxes" model works pretty fine for them and that he
doesn't see any reasons for them to change. And I think he also said
that he didn't see any opportunities for open source in that field.
Now that I write it down like this, I'm even more puzzled as to why they
actually sponsored. Maybe my mental recorder is somehow broken and I
don't remember things correctly.
As I remember what Ableton-Founder Gerhard Behles said was that he
likes running a successful business with Ableton Live as a
shrinkwrapped product, but that trying to sell shrinkwrapped open
source Linux sound software at least currently wouldn't work. And that
is something that we all basically know: Not many people would buy a
shrink wrapped Ardour when it's available as a free download. (Many
people also don't buy shrinkwrapped Ableton Live because it's
available illegally as a free download, but enough people still do.)
Regarding the sponsoring: I think, it was a nice move by Ableton to
support the LAC, even though we're not the target audience for Live
and potential competitors. But still the demo-CDs with Live on it were
gone quite fast. Maybe one day there will be a Linux version of Live,
but it's not something I particularily look forward to, as I wouldn't
use it anyways unless it gets opensource'd.
Ciao
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