On Monday 26 Feb 2007 23:01, Bengt Gördén wrote: > måndag 26 februari 2007 23:33 skrev Chris Cannam: > > I do instantly take a dislike to projects that start up saying > > their ambition is to clone some commercial app directly for Linux. > > But that's another argument (that I seem to remember having on LAD > > once before, and will have again in the pub with anyone, any day). > > Well you're on. I've got no problem discussing that topic. It's not > commercial app that is the problem. It's the closed source that is. Yes, I should have said closed source or proprietary. Not that it makes much difference in this context, as all the commercial audio apps are proprietary and there are few proprietary non-commercial audio apps that are substantial enough to inspire projects to clone them. It's not that I wouldn't prefer they were free software; it's that setting out to clone an existing program, especially in the field of art or entertainment, is a misapplication of your own creative energy. Here's the earlier flam^H^H^H^Hargument. I don't have much to add. http://www.music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2006-February/014743.html It's really a five pints in the pub discussion. Chris
