Re: Dumping Pro-Tools for Linux. Is it feasable?

From: SSJVCmag (ten_at_nozirev.gamnocssj.com)
Date: 10/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 02:57:51 GMT

On 10/17/05 3:54 PM, in article 1129578888_10590@spool6-east.superfeed.net,
"JEDIDIAH" <jedi@nomad.mishnet> wrote:

> On 2005-10-16, james <fishbowl@conservatory.com> wrote:
>> In article <1121549954.456262.319380@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
>> Stephen Tisi <stephen_tisi@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> So exactly what do you have against Linux and Open Source?
>>
>> He doesn't think it's an appropriate topic for rec.audio.pro.
>> He does have good reasons for that, but he communicates them very
>> poorly.
>>
>> It happens that "nobody" in the pro studio world is running Linux for
>> audio production. Maybe there are a few more this year than last, with
>> the popularity of the Muse Receptor, but "nobody" is using Audacity for
>> their DAW, Muse or Rosegarden for their sequencer, not using Jack FX,
>> etc.
>>
>> Pro audio guys tend to be birds of a feather, and are focused on getting
>> the job done in a streamlined way. It's not a world where spending a
>> lot of time exploring something new and experimental, for the sake of
>> doing that, is rewarded. It's regarded as a waste of time to want to
>
> Then the industry has decended into a sorry state dominated by
> what can be best described as a corporate mentality. I say descend because
> you couldn't be smug about the tools you use today unless others were
> willing to indulge in "unproductive tinkering".

Not hardly.
Re-read that VERY succinct line up there escribing how working pros are...
"... focused on getting the job done in a streamlined way. It's not a world
where spending a lot of time exploring something new and experimental, for
the sake of doing that, is rewarded"

A professional who buys a work truck buys, say, a Ford 250 truck instead
of a kit-truck or off-brand NOT because 'the other guys are doing it' or
because of some imagined descent into a corporate mentality... but
because the Ford will absolutely do what he wants guaranteed,
it will NOT have a problem that can;t be fixed QUICKLY
with minimal downtime and
no surprises
by a large nation-wide service infrastructure and
it's a proven commodity that his clients EXPECT him to be that rock solid.

This is not rocket science.

Linux is wonderful and in a few years it will have shown its reliability and
will then HAVE this sort of reputation. It's building that now.
Whining only reenforces the down-side of it all.
These discussions really Do belong on the linux groups. When working sound
pros are interested, they know where to look for you for advice and, like
some have already, they'll beat a path to your door for the Better
Mousetrap!
In the meantime, try and keep from crossposting stuff out of the linux
realm, just like considerate others in, say, the Pro Horse trainers
newsgroups are not crossposting into Linux groups.

thanks

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