You Get What You Pay For
"You get what you pay for" is a common FUDphrase used to discredit Linux and FOSS, because so much of it is available free of cost. Which scares the purveyors of overpriced crapware, who would rather walk barefoot through broken glass and burning dung than write software that customers actually feel happy paying for. It's hooey and we know it. But there is a related truism that is valid, which is "Whoever pays the piper calls the tune." You could shorten this to "money talks." And that is definitely true.
One of today's articles got me to thinking about this. Red alert: Ardour is in serious trouble. Ardour is Free Software, licensed under the GPL, and is also free of cost. It is a professional-quality multi-channel digital audio workstation that competes with the expensive closed-source proprietary applications, such as M-Audio's ProTools and Steinberg's Nuendo, both of which will suck hundreds or even thousands of dollars out of your pocket before you know what hit you. Cubase, Sequoia, Adobe Audition, Cakewalk, and all the rest add insult to injury with inconsistent support for standards and formats, and many of them try to lock you in to their own hardware as well as software.
Of course they're all Windows applications, with some token support for Mac OS X, which is a joke because Windows is a lousy platform for serious audio work. So Ardour fills a very important and under-served niche.
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