It seems a bit sad that any Linux advocate should be
backing this
 operation, it would cost about $1500 per year to get access to any kind of
 support for the SDK or advice on best practices and cosiderably more if you
 really want to participate. You could stump up $175 per year yourself to
 propose changes as long as you can find somebody paying the full price or
 more to back you. It is a commercial directive not an open movement. From a
 perspective of Linux audio it is already a pain that the Midi Manufacturers
 Association want cash for their specifications.
 So is the argument for this specification will be 'the professional
 applications will be using it' hence it becomes the standard?
 The whole specification is delivered outside of a GPL, products using its
 specifications are expected to pay royalty licensing and as such should not
 be advocated as a part of any open source movement.
 The proposal here was for an open format, not a closed consortium format,
 the difference may be subtle and is apparantly lost on some people.
 N.
 From: Paul Davis
<paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com>
Reply-To: paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com,A list for linux audio users
<linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org>
To: A list for linux audio users <linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org>
Subject: Re: [LAU] Proposal: OpenDAWS (long)
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:31:48 -0400
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 18:16 +0300, David Baron wrote:
  Wonderfully, the linux audio opensource field has
become nicely 
populated.
  Opensource means freedom of choice. One is not
tied to that $400 
proprietary
  bloated DAW program. Comes jack and one can
dissect the functionality 
and
  network smaller pieces (if one's system can
handle the multiple 
processes).
  Trememdous freedom of choice.
 Problem is: No DAW program, opensource or otherwize, interoperates with 
any
  other. Cakewalk works with Cakewalk, Cubase with
Cubase, Ardour with 
Ardour,
  etc. Each has its strengths and each has its
adherents. Never the
 'twain 
do
  meet. (Lash is fine but the restriction remains.)
 Proposal: OpenDAWS. 
its actual name is AAF-XML. please google it.
--p
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