8 Jul
2004
8 Jul
'04
6:16 p.m.
R Parker wrote:
It certainly isn't beyound me to wish that a
company
with a high grade product would port to linux.
However, my feelings for that have changed. My current
position is, fuck them. This our community, let's keep
it that way. We need to put leeches on our own hooks.
I am prepared to spend $10.00 or $15.00 towards the
purchase of something if I know that money will be
well spent. If a couple hundred of us do that, we'll
make a hell of a contribution to our favorite project.
The more I think about giving $500.00 U.S. to a closed
project, the more pissed off I get. I'm tell'n ya, I'm
turning purple over here. Actually, I just had a
breakthrough on the drum kit so I'm not very purple.
It was only a couple of years that ago that people started taking Linux
seriously for graphics work, and it is becoming more and more prominent
especially in the motion picture post-production/visual FX industry...
open source/free software even, not just ports of commercial
applications. I can only hope that people will start taking Linux for
audio use seriously... especially for the starving musician who can;t
afford to shell out $500 for Finale or $700 or more for DAW software.
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