11 Jan
2006
11 Jan
'06
10:28 a.m.
Emiliano Grilli wrote:
I've had a quick look at skaletracker a year ago or
so, it was looking
good but a little slow. Unfortunately, the site states that
"We have created this program to you all. This will be free (NO CHARGE)
to use for the Scene. (NOT OPEN SOURCE)"
So, it is freeware but not free. I'm not so rigid in this respect, but
if you look at what happened to buzz (another great program IMHO): buzz
can run fairly well under wine, but for sure there will be no further
development on it, since the author lost the sources after a disk
crash. If the sources were published, this wouldn't be occurred.
Of course I agree. However, please note that a very pro-Linux fellow is
assisting baktery with Skale development on Linux. It is still possible
that baktery will decide to make his sources open and freely available.
PS: hope to see you again at LAC2006 ;)
I didn't submit a paper this year, and unless one of the journals wants
me there as a reporter it's unlikely I'll attend. I'm not nearly so
close to development now as I have been in past years, and since it is a
developers conference I would be happy to see someone more deserving get
a spot. LAC is a fantastic experience, I'll certainly miss it (and all
my friends there), but I think it would be more valuable to someone
actively developing Linux audio software.
Best,
dp