its true , sorry that I had it wrong,
On 03/18/2011 12:09 PM, ailo wrote:
On 03/18/2011 10:03 AM, IOhannes zmölnig wrote:
"open source" doesn't mean that you don't have to pay for a download.
True.
The licenses in Ardour makes it impossible for them to charge for each copy of the software, though. They could insist to charge for one download, but then the software could be made available elsewhere for free. On the Ardour website they are not forcing you to pay for a download, just asking you to.
I thought they would charge something for osx version, but thats also free! I support the ardour project with a subscription because I do all movie-postproduction with ardour (or now with mixbus since that came out on linux recently) and I really like the project. it develops very fast to a very powerful DAW. the ardour financial model works very well I think, but for this specific project. I d say every project needs to find its unique way to finance itself.. you can hardly find a general rule how it works or should work.