Them wrote: > R Parker wrote: > > >>It certainly isn't beyound me to wish that a company >>with a high grade product would port to linux. >>However, my feelings for that have changed. My current >>position is, fuck them. This our community, let's keep >>it that way. We need to put leeches on our own hooks. >> >>I am prepared to spend $10.00 or $15.00 towards the >>purchase of something if I know that money will be >>well spent. If a couple hundred of us do that, we'll >>make a hell of a contribution to our favorite project. >> >>The more I think about giving $500.00 U.S. to a closed >>project, the more pissed off I get. I'm tell'n ya, I'm >>turning purple over here. Actually, I just had a >>breakthrough on the drum kit so I'm not very purple. > > > It was only a couple of years that ago that people started taking Linux > seriously for graphics work, and it is becoming more and more prominent > especially in the motion picture post-production/visual FX industry... > open source/free software even, not just ports of commercial > applications. I can only hope that people will start taking Linux for > audio use seriously... especially for the starving musician who can;t > afford to shell out $500 for Finale or $700 or more for DAW software. In that case, it would seem to be a good idea to go after the users of pirated music apps, which are widely available on p2p networks, and convince them to switch. The viable arguments I can think of are, "you don't have to feel guilty; you can talk without worry about the software you've got installed; if you want a feature or enhancement you can communicate with the developers; you don't have to worry about downloading 10 versions of Cubase SX trying to find one that works; and upgrades are generally seamless." That's the reality. You can get $10000 of pro studio software with a couple days of downloading in Windows, and that's why I think more people aren't using Linux for audio. In fact, it's for reasons like this that sometimes I think I'm almost _pro_ DRM / M$ pwnz you / big brother is eating your babies for breakfast kind of software and legislation. Cheers, Chris
