Re: [LAU] Harrison Mixbus ... now available on Linux!

On 02/12/2011 04:42 PM, Benjamin Freitag wrote: sure some parts are closed source, but the whole project is really very friendly and well-behaved wrt its open-source roots. the primary author is very active in the ardour community, and most of mixbus is developed out in the open (you can check out the source svn from ardour.org). iiuc, the only exception is a binary-only ladspa plugin blob that contains harrison's proprietary mixer strip functionality. i'd say the ardour community is getting a fair deal: the harrison brand can be relied on to raise a few eyebrows in the industry, and open source audio has been featured prominently in major magazines etc since harrison has partnered with ardour (as had happened before with the xdubber product). plus if i read paul's announcement right, some share of the mixbus revenue is being contributed back to ardour. so kudos to harrison for showing how to make a successful product based on free software, and playing very fair in the process. i wish them all the best.