Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Creamware Pulsar
From: Mark Constable (markc_AT_renta.net)
Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 07:20:53 EET
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 03:07, Jussi Laako wrote:
> Joachim Backhaus wrote:
> > Yes, if for example Britney Spears says she uses Linux
> > for her album EVERYTHING would change!!! :D
>
> At least I would probably change to FreeBSD... :)
Please do. If you don't realize the importance and implications
of widespread acceptence of Linux in the tacky commercial world
of A/V production then go use *BSD. *I* (FWIW) would like to have
the option of making a living competing in that tacky world, if I
chose to do so, and I don't buy the argument that somehow having
really competitive and usable applications will distort the essence
of purely academic sonic amusement... that software is already
established, great, but where's the commercially usable apps ?
If I seriously commit to spending my time producing A/V content
then I *must* make that endeavour also pay my bills or else I,
and my A/V efforts, will evaporate. But to do so I need standard
commercially competative tools that do not yet exist on Linux.
Again, I could get some of the available tools to mostly work with
an obscene amount of background effort, but I cannot possibly expect
other members of a coop or group to also figure out how to use CVS
and compile apps that... might work, nor use academic trinkets that
provide no substantial way to interoperate with standard commercial
production tools.
I am an open source biggot but if Linux can't deliver in another
12 months I'm going to have to adopt OSX, which by then will
probably have a huge swag of seriously usable tools, even if I
have to pay for them and give up any pretext of tweaking the code,
the need to actually be productive will override any warm and
fuzzy feeling about using open source.
Meanwhile, (b)millions of dollars worth of content is NOT being
produced on Linux platforms... hence the spinoff of that turnover
is also NOT coming back to the Linux community. We all need to eat.
--markc
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