Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Creamware Pulsar
From: DAVID G MATTHEWS (dgm4+@pitt.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 18:24:45 EET
No one wants to deny that there is a need for apps which can take down
[insert favorite commercial audio/sequencing program here]. We will have
them soon enough. I don't think anyone has tried to disuade anyone from
working on such apps, or from using them once they become available. I
personally have been using (yes, actually doing work with) Ardour of late,
and and I look forward to its further development.
I just wanted to point out that for those of us stuck-up elitist academic
purists who don't particularly care about the commercial viability of our
work, Linux is already the place to be. I can't speak for anyone else on
this one, but I personally didn't mean to imply that such people are the
only ones who should be using Linux for audio, and I certainly didn't want
to start a flamefest.
-dgm
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Mark Constable wrote:
> 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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