Is this guy kidding 1163

On 10 Apr 2006 04:57:11 GMT, Unruh

I don't see that thread. All I see is a reference to a comment another person made in another thread. What's the breastle of the other thread and why is it relevent to a direct statement made by one person who seems to have disappeared?

Read the subsequent posts by:

Mr. Tapeguy Doc Weaver Steve King Zero dB and David Morgan

They say it far better than I can.

Ease of use. Ease of getting help. Ease of allowing them to integrate what they already have. Musicians want to make music, not tweak operating systems. Musicians as a whole are typically not the highest paid profession around. Neither are engineers. Linux is free and we are always looking to save a dollar or two. So? If Linux is so great, where is it?

If Digidesign offered Protools free for a week in May 2006 they wouldn't be able to print enough copies to distribute.

Linux is good for some things but DAW is not one of them.

I realize you won't have a clue as to what I am talking about but what about VST instruments? Can I run Garritan Big Band with sub 5msec latency? How about Steinbergs "The Grand" which has a funky copy protection system. Will Linux allow this protection system to work? How about Waves plugins which use the PACE copy protection system. Will Linux allow THAT protection system to authenticate the software? Those are very popular plugins. How about the forth coming Garritson "Steinway Piano" which is the first Steinway sampled-modeled piano officially sanctioned by the Steinway people. There are a lot of people waiting for that one to be released this spring. And if those plugins will not function under Linux, does Linux have alternatives that are just as good? How about support for firewire or USB control surfaces in the Linux programs? (Hell firewire and USB themselves are still under experimentation with Linux) I could go on for 10 pages but that should send you back into the Linux group from which you originated.

If Digidesign disappeared from the face of the earth today, they would still leave a working product at a commercial release level. And with the exception of the hardware breaking and replacements difficult to find, the software functions fine and is being used every single day to make music you and I listen to.

Compare that to some 0.3 version of Linux software where the student working on the project discovers girls and abandons the project. If nobody picks it up, we are still left with a semi-brain damaged alpha version of software.

Audacity's native format is not .wav files.

See above. That should keep you busy or send you running.

*You* don't have to but don't expect to sell many cars with sealed windows when other manufacturers have roll up and down windows.

Linux can't do it.

I'm not on the offensive, I'm simply telling it like it is. You have no idea how this industry works.

I do.

See above.

Yes you do because you are debating something you know nothing about and that is professional or semi-professional audio work. That's what is so damaging about diehard Linux advocates. They try to offer up Linux as a solution for applications where it just is not mature enough to do the job and in effect you are looking like a jester trying to do it.