Hallo, Pieter Palmers hat gesagt: // Pieter Palmers wrote: > They didn't express anything special during the conference. One of their > founders (at least I think he is) was there, and apparently he's an old > student of TU-Berlin, and TU-Berlin just asked. > > During the panel discussion he basically said that the "sell > shrinkwrapped boxes" model works pretty fine for them and that he > doesn't see any reasons for them to change. And I think he also said > that he didn't see any opportunities for open source in that field. > > Now that I write it down like this, I'm even more puzzled as to why they > actually sponsored. Maybe my mental recorder is somehow broken and I > don't remember things correctly.
As I remember what Ableton-Founder Gerhard Behles said was that he likes running a successful business with Ableton Live as a shrinkwrapped product, but that trying to sell shrinkwrapped open source Linux sound software at least currently wouldn't work. And that is something that we all basically know: Not many people would buy a shrink wrapped Ardour when it's available as a free download. (Many people also don't buy shrinkwrapped Ableton Live because it's available illegally as a free download, but enough people still do.) Regarding the sponsoring: I think, it was a nice move by Ableton to support the LAC, even though we're not the target audience for Live and potential competitors. But still the demo-CDs with Live on it were gone quite fast. Maybe one day there will be a Linux version of Live, but it's not something I particularily look forward to, as I wouldn't use it anyways unless it gets opensource'd. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
