Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] final scratch audio
From: Nathaniel Virgo (natvi286_AT_student.liu.se)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 18:09:43 EEST
Oh well, it was nice while it lasted :) I wasn't being serious, it was just one of those experiences when you have a really good idea and discuss it with your friends and then do nothing for a couple of years until you see an article about the exact same thing in some magazine, and you think, "damn, if only we'd done that."
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Seymour <nutate_AT_speakeasy.net>
Date: Tuesday, August 6, 2002 3:35 pm
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] final scratch audio
> On Tue, 06 Aug 2002 15:03:06 +0200
> Nathaniel Virgo <natvi286_AT_student.liu.se> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Patrick Shirkey wrote
> > > Nathaniel Virgo wrote:
> > > > (incidentally, I know someone who came up with the same idea
> a
> > > couple of years ago. He's pretty annoyed that someone else
> got
> > > there first :) )
> > > >
> > >
> > > Is he annoyed that someone else got there first or that he didn't?
> >
> > That he didn't, I guess. It seemed like a pretty revolutionary idea
> > when we were CS graduates...
> >
> >
>
> Just a little note, Final Scratch was invented and patented by a
> company from the Netherlands called N2IT. That was by at least 1999,
> if not 1998. It originally ran on BeOS, but then Stanton bought it
> and (someone) ported it to Linux. From the website it looks like
> they'll be porting it to Mac OS9 and OSX as well.
>
> -Rich
>
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