Re: [linux-audio-user] New Free Proyect starting

From: Ismael Valladolid Torres <ivalladt@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Jan 11 2006 - 11:28:47 EET

Lee Revell escribe:
> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 02:52 +0000, John Mulholland wrote:
> > >I'm interested on to run ProTools in Linx ( like a good sound
> > >technician student.. ), if u know some interesting link, make me know
> > >it, I need more informaton first... ( I'm like a robot... XDD )
> > >
> > >
> > I have been told by a director at DigiDesign that ProTools will never be
> > open source friendly. They have a pool of developers who custom build,
> > and that is the way it will always continue.
> >
>
> None of these marketing-driven hardware/software companies will ever be
> open source friendly, it's a threat to their business model. Open
> drivers make it impossible for your marketing department to lie about
> the capabilities of the hardware. For example, google for "Fraudigy".

Hopefully not buying that hardware will end up being the real threat
to that business model.

Not meaning that Digidesign hardware isn't top class, of course...

Cordially, Ismael

-- 
Dropping science like when Galileo dropped his orange

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