On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 02:31, Bob Ham wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 01:35, Dave Robillard wrote: > > My two cents on the corporate deal: > > > We already have two big proprietary OSes > > > Why turn Linux into yet another one? > > corporate != proprietary > > Bob
I realise this, I was being concise for effect really. (My apologies, I should have been more clear. But then again dealing with the big audio software manufacturers basically does = proprietary. Think they'll make Reason (or whatever) open source if they were to port it to Linux? Hah. Would any of those big corporate entities open up their file formats as a gesture of good faith? I severely doubt it. Hardware manufacturers are a different story. We should push with all we've got to get their (open) cooperation. I didn't at all mean linux audio should have nothing to do with anything that is a "corporation". By all means, if they support free software obviously their presence is welcome. Blind anti-corporatism is silly. My point was bending over for big companies "just because", in the name of Linux Audio World Domination (or whatever), is a Bad Idea(TM). Let's face it, the open source thing is the only thing we've got. Without it there's no reason for Linux to exist really - go use Solaris. -Dave
