5 Apr
2014
5 Apr
'14
7:35 p.m.
On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 17:56 +0200, Tim Blechmann wrote:
Ok, true and while some companies don't care about the averaged
customer, they care if you call them when working for another company.
When I worked for Brauner I could call some companies and they listened
to me, but they won't listen to me, when I call them privately. That's
not bad at all, since if you call company B while working for company A
the averaged user will benefit too. But if you talk to companies there
always is a communication chain, while for Linux audio we usually can
directly get in contact with the developers, that's a nice advantage.
well, it is nice being able to talk to a dev, but it does not
necessarily help: e.g. i once contacted a developer of some ladspa
plugins that the filters get unstable, getting the wonderful answer
like: i just implemented some textbook formular, i don't know what this
kind of filter is and have no understanding about DSP ... of course he
did not care about fixing bugs or making sure that fixes will make it
into distributions ...
Hobby vs professional, the problem with Linux is, that one way is to
install all available plugs and another way is to install plugs you
know, that will be ok for your needs. IOW meta-packages could cause
serious issues ;).
Rui, Harry and
many other developers care a lot about user feedback
too :). That's the good thing when using Linux audio. The chance to talk
to the developers of proprietary software is virtually zero.
in this regard, you may want to distinguish between a company of 50000
people like yamaha (steinberg), 3000 people like avid (protools) and
companies like bitwig or cockos (each having about 3 developers).