On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 06:40 +0100, Cesare Marilungo wrote: > Ok, let's try to take the problem from another direction. > > What do you think is the reason some talented coders and some > influential thinkers are putting a lot of efforts into writing and > maintaining open source software if it is not the belief that sharing > knowledge, solutions, tools and such is the way to go? > > Why Paul Davis started writing Jack and Ardour instead of writing > another commercial DAW and then try to sell it to a publisher? Because they choose to do so. It is equally legitimate to choose to develop proprietary software. I happen to believe that in the long run open source will prevail over proprietary solutions on its technical merits. Just because we believe that open source is a better model, does not entitle us to force that on everyone. Lee
