On 2/21/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. In my optimistic moments I completely agree with you.... In my pessimistic moments I think of what happened with LinuxSampler. When just a couple of people can change, or attempt to change, the licensing model for a piece of software I realize how fragile the Open Source model is. Add to that developers who choose to come and go for different reasons and it's mostly a disaster waiting to happen... In my thankful moments I think of the teams doing to biggest project and the individuals doing smaller projects and am amazed at all the great stuff people do... In my pragmatic moments I just use Linux, Windows and Macs to make me happy and don't worry too much about any of the above... ;-) Cheers, Mark
