Quote:
Originally Posted by Justin Frankel  This is a good question--and believe me, I've considered it at times.
The price of REAPER actually isn't unprofitable.. Provided you get enough people using/buying it, which we are. 
A big factor however, is that if REAPER was open source, it would be much more difficult to support proprietary standards.
The licenses for VST and ASIO are incompatible with GPL'd software, Propellerheads will only license ReWire to non-open-source developers, etc.
Get Steinberg and Propellerheads to open their stuff up, and we'll think about it 
-Justin |
Wow that's really useful to know...The computer audio world is built on closed standards!
The standards setters are specifically preventing open source competitors.
That more than doubles the challenge then...you have to recreate those standards, and hope that you get enough support...
OK you hit that out of the park Justin we can aim our ire at the standardsmakers. Thanks!
