On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:22:37 -0400 "Ivica Bukvic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks! This really helped me see straight again :-). > > However this brings up one interesting point/problem. Due to GPL nature > of Linux software, many of our efforts will seamlessly bleed into OS X > world since there are no restrictions as to which platform this software > is run on, and Apple made an explicit move to target open-source > developers and/or users by implementing Darwin and underlying > almost-Unix system. > > To me this is a problem. Since, all our efforts and time will not lure > more people to Linux. Rather, our software will (perhaps) become popular > (pro-tools killer or whatever), but not necessarily on a Linux platform. > In the end, we will not reap what we have sown. Users on the OS X will > be theoretically able to run Ardour as much as we will, especially now > that jackd has been ported to OS X. To me, this does not seem right. I really don't see this as a problem. For my two libraries (libsndfile and libsamplerate) I'm glad to see them run on OSX. For GUI stuff, someone is going to have to either write a native GUI or suffer the VERY slow speed of X11 on top of the laready slow OSX. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ The Earth is around 70% water. Fish rule the seas. Humans are over 90% water. It's only a matter of time.
