Re: [LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

>>> Rui, Harry and many other developers care a lot about user feedback
>>> too :). That's the good thing when using Linux audio. The chance to talk
>>> to the developers of proprietary software is virtually zero.
>>
>> in this regard, you may want to distinguish between a company of 50000
>> people like yamaha (steinberg), 3000 people like avid (protools) and
>> companies like bitwig or cockos (each having about 3 developers).
>
> Ok, true and while some companies don't care about the averaged
> customer, they care if you call them when working for another company.
> When I worked for Brauner I could call some companies and they listened
> to me, but they won't listen to me, when I call them privately. That's
> not bad at all, since if you call company B while working for company A
> the averaged user will benefit too. But if you talk to companies there
> always is a communication chain, while for Linux audio we usually can
> directly get in contact with the developers, that's a nice advantage.

well, it is nice being able to talk to a dev, but it does not
necessarily help: e.g. i once contacted a developer of some ladspa
plugins that the filters get unstable, getting the wonderful answer
like: i just implemented some textbook formular, i don't know what this
kind of filter is and have no understanding about DSP ... of course he
did not care about fixing bugs or making sure that fixes will make it
into distributions ...

tim

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Received on Thu Apr 3 20:15:02 2014