On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 03:07, Jussi Laako wrote: > Joachim Backhaus wrote: > > Yes, if for example Britney Spears says she uses Linux > > for her album EVERYTHING would change!!! :D > > At least I would probably change to FreeBSD... :)
Please do. If you don't realize the importance and implications of widespread acceptence of Linux in the tacky commercial world of A/V production then go use *BSD. *I* (FWIW) would like to have the option of making a living competing in that tacky world, if I chose to do so, and I don't buy the argument that somehow having really competitive and usable applications will distort the essence of purely academic sonic amusement... that software is already established, great, but where's the commercially usable apps ? If I seriously commit to spending my time producing A/V content then I *must* make that endeavour also pay my bills or else I, and my A/V efforts, will evaporate. But to do so I need standard commercially competative tools that do not yet exist on Linux. Again, I could get some of the available tools to mostly work with an obscene amount of background effort, but I cannot possibly expect other members of a coop or group to also figure out how to use CVS and compile apps that... might work, nor use academic trinkets that provide no substantial way to interoperate with standard commercial production tools. I am an open source biggot but if Linux can't deliver in another 12 months I'm going to have to adopt OSX, which by then will probably have a huge swag of seriously usable tools, even if I have to pay for them and give up any pretext of tweaking the code, the need to actually be productive will override any warm and fuzzy feeling about using open source. Meanwhile, (b)millions of dollars worth of content is NOT being produced on Linux platforms... hence the spinoff of that turnover is also NOT coming back to the Linux community. We all need to eat. --markc