[LAU] Re: KVR cafe contest at risk

Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> writes: The one thing that FOSS (whether commercial or not) has is that you don't get into the situation where some investor brings money into the shop and then decides to shut down development some time later. Like what happened to Sibelius. Admittedly, shutting down development is still a large hit, and there were numerous "let's shut down development and make it Open Source" projects that did not make it. You need project structures as well as a pool of capable developers that can be guilted into helping users and development on, and that kind of commitment requires some history and does not come about with the snap of a finger. StarOffice made the transition (not sure about the exact current relation between OpenOffice and LibreOffice though), Blender managed it I think. I am not quite sure about the backstory for Melt/Shotcut. For those that managed the transition without dying off, I think it is more or less fair to say that the change ended with a large growth in size and dedication of the developer and user community. Of course measuring success by only looking at successful cases is certainly making for a rather biased view. TLDR: it's complicated. -- David Kastrup