1 Dec
2004
1 Dec
'04
1:50 p.m.
--- Brad Fuller <brad(a)sonaural.com> wrote:
I'm not sure giving back is so automatic. Has Yamaha
music given anything back?
I own two Yamaha 4416 HDR units that run Linux but
haven't noticed any contributions to Linux that are
credited to Yamaha. To be fair, I wouldn't know if
they have or haven't. I've never looked at a website
to see if Yamaha even says anything about Linux on
these units. I assume these are Linux machines because
Tux pops up during the boot and I was told by someone
that knows the Yamaha developers that the 4416 runs
Linux.
Wasn't there an announcement a year ago about Yamaha
investing five millionish U.S. dollars into embedded
linux? Maybe I just answered my own question. :)
ron
Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote:
Mark Knecht:
>BTW - I truly think that in the next 12-24 months
Digi will release
What digidesign should do, is to make their own
specialized distribution
of linux to run protools with, and set up a list
of
recommended hardware.
Then they would solve various hardware- and
software-issues running
protools on a PC, and they would automatically
give
back a lot
to the linux-community thru work on the protools
linux distribution and
>getting a bounchelibounch of new audio linux users. That's what I would do -- have to do -- if the
decision was to offer a
product based on linux. But, again, they would have
to plan out a
strategy of how this product would be
created/marketed/delivered/supported/etc in the
marketplace. As it is,
they don't support an OS today, they just use two
that someone else
creates/markets/supports/etc. The OS maker has the
enormous cost burden.
This could be a significant burden that they
otherwise just don't need
at the moment.
On the flip-side, if they look at their overall
costs, it might just
prove cheaper if they roll-their-own exclusively.
Today, they may spend
a bunch on adapting their products to each new
release of an OS (well,
we know by history that they don't adapt too
quickly.) They are
dependent on others (MS and Apple) and maybe that,
when you look at it
holistically (what new features or product releases
have the missed
because of this external dependency? -- thus lost
dollars), costs them
more than adapting their own OS.
brad
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