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On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine

 wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:36 AM, michael noble  wrote:

>

> "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" (c) S. Freud

>

> :)))

And paraphrasing Magritte, sometimes a pipe is not a pipe.
:P
> I really hope you were joking when you wrote that. Linux audio tools

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> of 2011 are not functionally equivalent to commercial solutions of

> 2011. Or you will have to own up that you use a tiny fraction of

> features :)

>

Hence I said "at best", meaning, in the best case scenario some FOSS

tools may be functionally equivalent. I think the exception might be

JACK, as the case could be made that it is functionally superior to

any other inter-application audio and midi routing framework.
> I'm attracted by ideas and technologies. I don't have a habit of going

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> around and making a face if an interesting technology turns out to be

> proprietary. You can't really tell someone (s)he isn't smart and the

> idea isn't worth a penny just because his/her software isn't under GPL

> (well, you can, but most people would think you are an asshole who

> deserves a thrashing).

So then, out of curiosity more than anything else, why do Linux-based

proprietary products not fit in with a discussion about the promotion

of Linux as a platform for audio production?
-michael

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