Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] I think that what he means is even more important than recognition...
From: John Lazzaro (lazzaro_AT_CS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Thu Oct 31 2002 - 21:43:25 EET
> Paul Davis <paul_AT_linuxaudiosystems.com> writes:
>
> its finally dawning on some people that whatever
> benefits specific plugin APIs bring to particular products and
> hardware, the proliferation of them is actually *more* harmful. i am
> skeptical that anyone in the commercial side of things really has the
> will to do anything about this, even though they may say they do.
Watching the Apple Emagic acquisition, followed by news that Logic
would transition to AudioUnits, followed by a mass influx of new
AudioUnits developers into the coreaudio-api list, was very
enlightening. The economics of commercial plug-in development
is such that once Apple owned Logic and made its intentions clear,
developers could not help but be interested in supporting the
plug-in architecture.
There's a natural follow-on move here -- Microsoft buying one or
more of the PC flagship applications, and moving them all to
support one new or existing standard, that Microsoft licenses
freely to all comers (with an anti-GPL poison pill). Then we're
back to familiar territory, Microsoft owning one way to
do it, Apple owning a second way to do it, and everyone else
supporting one or both. The natural reason to expect this not
to happen is the small absolute size of the audio content market
to a company like Microsoft. However, strategic issues may come
into play in Redmond to make this happen --
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