Re: [LAU] Look ma, I'm in the paper :)

On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 17:19:33 +0100 Massimo Barbieri <massimo(a)fsfe.org> wrote: But it asks you to share the code of the product you have paid $350,000 to develop. This is where, I think fantasy comes in. Certainly not from the Ardour project, so this is largely irrelevant. At US$5543.00/month average it could pay for 72 10kg bags of white rice, and some cheese, and then next month, some vegetables :) But the housing is a real problem. Not easy to rent/buy a place at less than $50 per month. This is to say, no wonder there are no fabulous sound producing synthesizers in Open Source. In the plural. As soon as one as toiled countless, pay less, months on finding algorithms and optimizing them, then other months to design a suitable nice and enticing user interface, and then other months on stabilizing the whole thing, one naturally wonders, why do I have to count grains of rice everyday ? What is the taste of tomatoes, I have forgotten. Not to mention crotonese. That is full time. Now, if one works in the evening and weekends, in teams that also do likewise, because for instance they need a roof for protection against the elements :) Since you mentioned Ardour, Paul Davis currently resides, if I'm not mistaken, in a Sprinter van with his wife, until June 2017. Which is quite neat, I must say, although I thought of bringing it up here just for to add a coloration. Then on nights and weekends only, it would take years and years to come up with anything competitive at the creation and sensitivity level, of commercial soft synths out there. Again, in the plural. So I consider that a fair amount of all that lies somewhere in a fantasy world of sorts. These arguments do not co-exist realistically in the world today.