Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] defending simplicity
From: Karl W. MacMillan (karlmac_AT_peabody.jhu.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 03:40:49 EEST
> 1) since Windows is the market leader, reverse-engineer it and make a
> free-clone, fully compatible with the original one, thousand of programs
> will run on the free-OS
>
>
> 2) write a better one from scratch: Linux is an example
> less pain, much more power , but windows apps will not run natively
>
> use a "wrapper" like Wine to achieve backwards compatibility , although
> with some drawbacks (slower performance,some compatibility problems of
> certain apps)
>
> an audio API is certainly ORDERS OF MAGNITUTES simpler than Windows,
> therefore the "wrapper" can be made almost perfect.
>
This is very strange to me. Linux is a clone, just of unix instead of
windows. Everytime you use emacs, sendmail, ps, ls, etc, etc you are using
one of a "thousand of programs will run on the free-OS". Also, you are
assuming that VST authors make no API calls beyond standard C and VST -
this seems very unlikey.
Karl
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