Originally posted by RicFreak:
The problem is not related to linux, but to the approach that comes out from
liontracs people messages. One of them said that:
"Our goal is to make all the software that powers the Mediastation open source
so that users can customize it, improve it fix eventual bugs etc."
and this assertion clearly leads to my point about users not being programmers.
I believe that you dont understand the context of that. First of all
I dont think this is implying specifically
for the user to do this, but it may very well be either options, features or services given by Lionstracs, or just the ability for a sound engineer to tweak it.. because
being realistic, most pro musicans always work with sound engineers.
Add to this my deep doubts about making all the software open source... I think that
company management has something to say about this...
Oh come on, what world do you live in? do you have a minimal idea of how many companies sell hardware using open source software for their products? from servers, networking devices, pdas, cellphones, cars, etc.
This is nothing new.
Then, a couple of your replies have no sense at all.
You say that every product has its lifetime. So what? I think that you ignore
(or undervaluate) how hard can be the process of customizing an operating system,
and how much harder can be the process of continuing someone's else work.
Well, it's just linux, and they made the intention clear that they will support standard apis and applications, so i dont see where the problem is. If I wish to go on and install some app on it I can, thats why it is a workstation for, and why it uses a standard cpu/architecture, dont you think?
because they have to fight against big, worldwide music companies (Yamaha, Korg and
Roland, just to name three of them), and against other companies with the same idea
(eKo),
As far as i can understand, it's a music workstation, which can run a lot of existing applications through a specialized hardware,
i dont see it being the same thing. But
you are just getting into the marketing stuff here, which doesnt seem like any of us really know much about.
BTW, when you say that with liontracs you can "...have a sampler of the quality of
giga or halion, or software synthesizers of the quality of reaktor, fm7 or DAWs at
the level of protools all running together in the same machine", you forget to mention
how much money we need to buy all those programs.
Definitely, you are right. Those programs cost a lot. So it is actually an enormous advantage that the opensource alternatives cost nothing.
Finally, I hate when someone start publishing its product saying that it is good
because it uses Linux, and the other is bad because of Microsoft.
oooh come on!! go to any roland, yamaha, wathever synth page and you will see all around "powered by xx, yy technology"
It's just marketing!! Linux is just the underlying OS as it is the underlying OS
of a lot more devices, the user should be able to ignore what Linux is and still use
the device and all its features. And as a plus,for those sound engineers with knowledge on it, they will probably make a lot more juice out if it.
As an example, no other OS is able to run last generation
windows applications side by side with a 20 years old MS-DOS application.
Ok, this is off-topic but deserves an answer. First of all, you should thank intel for that, not microsoft. Second, you dont really seem to know what an emulator is, and you can easily run legacy apps in windows or any other OS or platform using them.
So, if you like linux because of linux, then good, no problem. As already said, linux
is surely better for certain tasks. But, please, giev to Bill Gates the credits he gained.
Nobody says here that they like linux because of being linux. And nobody here said that Bill Gates doesnt deserve credit. That seems to be some idea you have about people which i dont believe it is appropiate here.
regards
Juan Linietsky
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