On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:36 AM, michael noble wrote: > > "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" (c) S. Freud > > :))) And paraphrasing Magritte, sometimes a pipe is not a pipe. :P > I really hope you were joking when you wrote that. Linux audio tools > of 2011 are not functionally equivalent to commercial solutions of > 2011. Or you will have to own up that you use a tiny fraction of > features :) > Hence I said "at best", meaning, in the best case scenario some FOSS tools may be functionally equivalent. I think the exception might be JACK, as the case could be made that it is functionally superior to any other inter-application audio and midi routing framework. > I'm attracted by ideas and technologies. I don't have a habit of going > around and making a face if an interesting technology turns out to be > proprietary. You can't really tell someone (s)he isn't smart and the > idea isn't worth a penny just because his/her software isn't under GPL > (well, you can, but most people would think you are an asshole who > deserves a thrashing). So then, out of curiosity more than anything else, why do Linux-based proprietary products not fit in with a discussion about the promotion of Linux as a platform for audio production? -michael _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
