Michael, you know I respect the work you and your team did with JAD, but this kind of statement simply sounds like what we call "sour grapes". 64 Studio and Planet CCRMA are chugging along nicely, they have no millionaires on board. MusiX is still maintained, and it seems that UStudio team is at least interested in my critiques of their system. None of those systems enjoy massive monetary contributions from a sugar daddy.Lump wrote:Yes JackLab has closed, because of not enough support from the community... the "free people" only take but never give a contribution for development or supporting a project. If there is no millionaire in the back, the small Linux projects die.
I've put in money, time, and effort equal to anyone anywhere, just to support the cause of open-source sound & music software. It is more than a little insulting to read a categorical statement like "the 'free people' only take but never give a contribution for development or supporting a project", especially when one considers the support shown for Ardour by its community of users.
Projects die in Linux because they don't catch on with a larger community of users and devs. Rui Nuno Capela manages to keep QJackCtl, QSynth, and QTractor going without financial backing. Fernando Lopez-Lezcano maintains Planet CCRMA without a millionaire. They do so because they have a large and committed user base, not because they have money-men. Plenty of moneyed projects die for the same reasons free ones die.
For whatever reasons the JAD team didn't seem to want to connect to the LA* user & developer communities. Edogawa showed up on the LAU list every now and then, but it seemed that drumfix and the other maintainers just didn't want to associate with the users on that list.
You did commendable work with JAD. I don't know what you expected to gain or achieve by it, but you ought to be proud enough of it for its own sake that you shouldn't need to run down anyone else's work.
JAD 1.0 is still running like a champion here at Studio Dave. It is as stable as any Linux distro I've ever used, and I've used a lot of them. I've recommended it in many articles I've written and will continue to do so as long as it's available.
I'm a poor artist that don't know how to pay the next bill. I can't sell unfinished software collections or books for things that don't work properly for me. I tried to write a small linux audio book (it is still announced at amazon) but whenever I've got a software crash or something like that, it was so frustrating that I had heavy doubt about that. No I can't make a book about something what doesn't work for me, I can't stand for a audiolinux that is maybe ok for some hobbyist, but not for the most professionals.
Since the new stock kernels are much better, the 'realtime' kernels/patches are not really needed for smaller projects, like 5 or 6 helix/synth1, a zynaddsubfx and a rakarrack. A year from now, jackd, midi, wine, and alsa will likely be a much tighter crew 