Comment Recording Industry go Linux? (Score 1) 182
The death of jazz++ saddens me.
As a professional musician I need to use windows because that is where all the best sequencing/recording/processing technology is (yes, windows is far superior to mac for digital audio). Nevertheless, as a computer scientist...I HATE WINDOWS! And a lack of music applications is what is really holding me down from solely booting linux.
There was /. article months ago about how computer graphics for movies were being moved to Linux render farms. This meant that Hollywood was going Linux. Well, why can't the same thing happen for recording industry (also hollywood/LA)? There is a huge demand for it. Believe me, I wouldn't pay god knows how much for ProTools if I could just download a free linux equivalent, which would probably run faster anyway.
If the recording industry moved to Linux, they wouldn't just be saving tons of money for software (their only costs would be hardware). They might also adopt a new outlook on the "free world". A combination of the two might shut up the RIAA.
As a professional musician I need to use windows because that is where all the best sequencing/recording/processing technology is (yes, windows is far superior to mac for digital audio). Nevertheless, as a computer scientist...I HATE WINDOWS! And a lack of music applications is what is really holding me down from solely booting linux.
There was
If the recording industry moved to Linux, they wouldn't just be saving tons of money for software (their only costs would be hardware). They might also adopt a new outlook on the "free world". A combination of the two might shut up the RIAA.
