Andreas Kuckartz wrote: >Levi D. Burton wrote: > > > >>I understand that commercial software developers have >>incentive for writing the apps (they are getting paid). I also >>understand that most linux audio software is a hobby for the developers. >>When I say "probably never will be..", my point is that commercial >>software developers simply have more time and resources. >> >> > >It is not that clear cut. For example: to which camp do you think does Linus >Torvalds belong (Linux kernel / OSDL) ? What about Takashi Iwai (ALSA / SuSE)? >Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (PlanetCCRMA / CCRMA)? > >Believe it or not but there are "commercial" software developers who get paid >for writing Open Source software. And quite a few successful Open Source >projects are mainly developed by such "commercial" software developers. But it >is true, the number of such projects is small when you only count audio >projects. > > > Let me know when Cakewalk Sonar and all the Native Instruments stuff goes open-source.
