On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 11:59 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 17:25 +0100, Ketil Thorgersen wrote: > > > >> It shall be released in March under an open licence. He will build up this > > >> small host JOST (Jack hOST) to a instrumentrack with basic sequencer > > >> functions. Later he will build up a full sequencer named "Juggler", which > > >> should be near to the commercial Tracktion. (JUCE is the framework behind > > >> Tracktion1) > > > This seem to me a very strange post! Why this frustration! Here this guy > > is actually trying to improve what he (and probably others) figures is a > > problem within the world of linux. So he begins to write a program to > > fix it instead of moaning about it. And then he announces it - only to > > get bashed by one of the key figures in the linux audio world. Strange! > > what is the number one issue facing pro-audio/music-oriented linux audio > right now, other than the need for every single possible hardware > interface to work? *developers*. there isn't a single project that > couldn't use a at least a few more developers. every single project: > Rosegarden, MuSE, Lilypond, Aldrin, Ardour, JACK, Seq24, Ingen, > Hydrogen, even ALSA itself, plus many more fine efforts that i've failed > to name. they all need people to add new functionality, to fix bugs, to > grow, scale, handle new goals and more. By that reasoning the logical thing to do would be to merge Rosegarden, MuSE, and Ardour, Aldrin and Beast/BSE, Zyn and WhySynth etc etc. While it may be more efficient in the short term, I think that having lots of choices is good in the long term. The more choices the better. --ll
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