Re: [LAU] LightWorks for Linux Demo

On 03/16/2013 03:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hmm. I've found many places that provide better fast food, but NONE for the same money. All I've seen charge more than McDonalds. Some proudly so; I think they're trying to imply that because their food costs more, it must be better. McDonalds has a very well-developed, efficient, refined and managed process for supplying food to their restaurants while maintaining the quality their customers buy and controlling the cost. It's very hard for competitors to match that process, let alone beat it. If Linux became the foundation for a similarly-efficient music production process that provides the "quality" (a very vague term when applied to music!) that customers (another vague term: a customer I might love to have might be the one that someone else would LOATHE) buy, I think the improvement in funding would only help Linux music production software get better. Get more competitive with the Mac and Windows software setups. As long as it continues to be FLOSS, and doesn't get locked up in proprietary products that run on Linux, the Linux software's monetary cost will always be less. That's one reason why people all over America pick McDonalds. When McDonalds started out, one of the differentiators it brought to the hamburger place market was consistent taste and quality. Before McDonalds, you took your chances when traveling. One hamburger place might be great. The next might give you food poisoning! Americans traveling internationally just took that attitude with them and applied it to environments where local food was much more questionable (for very real reasons, sometimes). -- David gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://clanjones.org/david/ http://dancing-treefrog.deviantart.com/