3 Aug
2011
3 Aug
'11
9:35 a.m.
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine
<alexandre.prokoudine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:36 AM, michael noble wrote:
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" (c) S. Freud
:)))
And paraphrasing Magritte, sometimes a pipe is not a pipe.
:P
I really hope you were joking when you wrote that.
Linux audio tools
of 2011 are not functionally equivalent to commercial solutions of
2011. Or you will have to own up that you use a tiny fraction of
features :)
Hence I said "at best", meaning, in the best case scenario some FOSS
tools may be functionally equivalent. I think the exception might be
JACK, as the case could be made that it is functionally superior to
any other inter-application audio and midi routing framework.
I'm attracted by ideas and technologies. I
don't have a habit of going
around and making a face if an interesting technology turns out to be
proprietary. You can't really tell someone (s)he isn't smart and the
idea isn't worth a penny just because his/her software isn't under GPL
(well, you can, but most people would think you are an asshole who
deserves a thrashing).
So then, out of curiosity more than anything else, why do Linux-based
proprietary products not fit in with a discussion about the promotion
of Linux as a platform for audio production?
-michael