All good valid points Mark. More power to him if he can make money and get these really good products noticed. Jan On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 11:53, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Audacity is a trivial download. There's no benefit to having it on CD > > by itself. A value-added CD packed with royalty free samples might be > > a different story, and the possibility of producing that has been > > discussed on the Audacity lists. > > > > Cheers > > > > Daniel > > > > My last post on this subject and then I'm done. > > Quote "There's no benefit to having it on CD by itself." > > Please do not think that you know what is, or is not, of benefit to someone > else. What about a person that doesn't have a CD burner? What about a person > who wants a backup copy so when the next release comes out and doesn't work > he can go back? What about Grandma putting it under the Christmas tree for > her grand kid? There are lots of 'reasonable' reasons for others that might > not be 'reasonable' to you. > > So often people on these lists, and I'm not speaking specifically of you > here Daniel, are *so* technically adept that they just plain forget what the > real world is like for non-technical people. You don't know what people are > doing out there. You don't know what their reasons are for wanting this. To > many people this sort of purchase will be exactly like buying a tabloid at > the checkout counter. I don't do that, but I don't propose taking away > anyone's right to do it, nor do I spend any time worrying about whether they > got their moneys worth. That's their business, not mine. > > This guy obviously got the message from you and others here through Ebay and > has changed the way he's making his offer. That's positive. If someone wants > to but it, I think that's great. If you want to sell Audacity, I think > that's great too. Anything that gets people using the software is probably > better in the long run for Open Source. I've turned so many people on to the > few Windows versions of Open Source stuff that exist, like Audacity and > ZynAddSubFx. I prefer to use them under Linux, but most musicians don't have > a Linux box. I see this as one good way to eventually bring people to the > Linux world. They start with this stuff on Windows, but they know it runs on > Linux, and then maybe, someday, when they have a choice to make about > operating systems they won't say 'there is no software for Linux'. > > Bye, > Mark > > > > >
