Hi Jan,
1) the
ability to directly ask the author(s) for a feature or bug fix and ....
Well, i thought of that, too. But that was more a general open-source
issue to me and
not directly connected with making music.
2) The "company"
can go out of business and the tool won't be unsupported (unless
absolutely no one was using it). Even in that case, if you have some
money, you could probably hire someone to do some work on it.
Of course you could but again: I tried to focus on what a musician would
think:
He won't try to proceed with the development of a tool when the project
is shut
down. At least not the musicians i know. They want to produce music as easy
as possible :)
Thanks for your ideas.
Best regards,
Sebastian.
web: linuxaudioblog.sternenhejim.de