Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 11 2004 - 12:47:16 EEST
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:05:36 +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> While choice is in fact a reason for me to use Linux, there's the problem
> that choice is mostly limited to incomplete/patchwork solutions (but in the
> proprietary software world there are similiar and some other problems).
Right, its not like protools has the same look+feel as logic, and with
good reason. Just like ardour doesnt have the same look+feel as
rosegarden.
> I understand the hobby/freetime/volunteer aspect, it's not different for me,
> only as a designer I need to have programmers cooperation/support.
>
> I understand that programmers like to have free choice of language, libraries
> and toolkits (even though it's painful to see reinvention of the wheel all the
> time).
Thats the programmers problem :) If you provide the graphics in a general,
and usable way (ideally with 'source'), its thier problem how they get them
to work in thier preferred UI toolkit.
- Steve
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