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On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 10:13, Rick Taylor wrote:

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> > Pro Tools

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>  It surprises me that they've not ported to linux yet.

To a small extent, me too. They have an OS X version. They could release

a straight Linux version if they wanted to, I'm sure. 
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>  You can't really run their software without their hardware,

>  they have something of a UNIX heritage, if they were to open

>  source the software it would do them wonders as pr/advertisement,

>  it would give them the benefits of linux developers and get them

>  as firmly entrenched in the linux world as they are everywhere else.

Linux, as a business architecture, is so totally screwed up that I don't

understand how it's supposed to work anymore. When you make hardware you

have to compile drivers. In the Linux world (today anyway) this means

releasing source. DigiDesign doesn't release source, so there's no real

way to support all the different distributions and hardware

configurations that exist. There's probably also a risk that if they

were able to release only a small part that would be compiled on a

target system that someone would hijack it and figure out how to make

Pro Tools work with other hardware, thus undercutting DigiDesign's real

business model which is selling hardware with software to support it.
I think the Linux architecture (or what little of it I understand) makes

this difficult and unlikely to ever happen.

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>  {Same for Creamware.}

Actually, I think most people look at DigiDesign incorrectly from a

business perspective. They are really a hardware company. They make

their money selling hardware, not software. If they depended on making

money selling software, they'd be no different from Steinberg, etc., so

they relay on their own hardware to differentiate themselves from the

rest of the pack.

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>  {{Linux strikes me as being vastly more suited to industrial scale

>  applications than anything else. Lower latency, more stability, it's

>  open source and it's free.}}

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>  Seeing as movie folk and major 3d apps are already running on linux

>  it really seems that there's a need there. 

Oh, I agree. Pro Tools on Linux would be a great app on a great

platform. DigiDesign would benefit greatly, if they could manage the

security of their source, and if their plug-in manufacturer's would play

ball. Unfortunately, the 001/002/RTAS plugin support has been bad,

except for Waves. The advantage for Pro Tools in Linux would come if

they would embrace LADSPA. 
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>  {Not to dis linux developers but you do need compatibility, standards

>  and apps that folk know how to work.}

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