On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 06:40 +0100, Cesare Marilungo wrote:
> Ok, let's try to take the problem from another direction.
>
> What do you think is the reason some talented coders and some
> influential thinkers are putting a lot of efforts into writing and
> maintaining open source software if it is not the belief that sharing
> knowledge, solutions, tools and such is the way to go?
>
> Why Paul Davis started writing Jack and Ardour instead of writing
> another commercial DAW and then try to sell it to a publisher?
Because they choose to do so. It is equally legitimate to choose to
develop proprietary software. I happen to believe that in the long run
open source will prevail over proprietary solutions on its technical
merits.
Just because we believe that open source is a better model, does not
entitle us to force that on everyone.
Lee
Received on Sun Feb 26 20:18:56 2006
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