22 Feb
2006
22 Feb
'06
1:46 a.m.
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 06:40 +0100, Cesare Marilungo wrote:
Ok, let's try to take the problem from another
direction.
What do you think is the reason some talented coders and some
influential thinkers are putting a lot of efforts into writing and
maintaining open source software if it is not the belief that sharing
knowledge, solutions, tools and such is the way to go?
Why Paul Davis started writing Jack and Ardour instead of writing
another commercial DAW and then try to sell it to a publisher?
Because they choose to do so. It is equally legitimate to choose to
develop proprietary software. I happen to believe that in the long run
open source will prevail over proprietary solutions on its technical
merits.
Just because we believe that open source is a better model, does not
entitle us to force that on everyone.
Lee