On Friday 10 December 2004 13:17, Mark Knecht wrote: > If it's a bad idea, for whatever reason (data security, > not enough broadband users, something else) please speak up. I > have no personal investment in this. Just an interest in > promoting musical collaboration and safer/happier computing. Speaking for myself, I have been meaning to set up a collaborative music site like what you describe, but on a smaller scale (basically for me and whomever I know personally) and using my company's spare colo bandwidth. If I didn't have that available to me I would frankly be shopping around for my own colo or hosting. I would suggest that many Linux audio users have a DIY outlook on web stuff because bandwidth and storage is such a commodity nowadays.... the missing piece for audio collaboration is really in the realm of software, not hosting. In my personal vision for the application or site, you can also store lossless tracks on the site and do rudimentary mixdowns and stuff and download the result in mp3 form. I see online music collaboration as being still in a very nascent and experimental phase of development, and I hope to explore its possibilities without being constrained by someone else's business model. Following your recent post to the RME thread explaining your view of the rights and (lack of) responsibilities of companies, though, I have to admit I wouldn't be especially inclined to pay you or your company very much money. It is possible to run a business without channelling Ayn Rand or P. T. Barnum; I run one such myself and I expect that of people and companies with whom I do business. Rob
