On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:01:10 -0500, Mike Rivers wrote:


In article writes:

Ardour is not a hobby project. The primary author quit his day
job years ago and has been working on it full time ever since.

A hobby is something that you may eventually derive some income from,
but it's not what you live on. Someone who quit work and is working on
a software program full time sounds like a retired hobbyist to me.

I realize that it's counter to the spirit of the Linux world to
actually charge money for your work, so I guess he can't justify
hiring a few others to share the workload. Does he even have a set of
specifications so that he'll know when he's reached a finished state?
Or do those keep changing and expanding as he goes along?

It's in feature freeze for 1.0 at the moment.

Check http://ardour.org/status.html for the roadmap.


I don't mean to put down the efforts of this guy, it just seems like
he doesn't have anything worth talking about in professional audio
circles yet. Let him and the handful of his followers have fun with
their ever changing DAW. Me, I'm happy turning on my Mackie HDR24/96
and recording whenever I want to.

Personally, I think they should have branched a stable version once it
reached the capabilities of something like a HDR24/96. (The original
versions of the program were quite similar). Not doing so has cost the
author at lot of users and potential income IMHO.