Posted by
Roblimo
on from the musicians-rejoice! dept.
Patrix writes "Looks like Jazzware will release under an open source license the next version of their Jazz++ MIDI sequencer! They will also release a GTK+ version for Linux. No info yet on which license they'll use."
...but they're still charging for Version 3!
by
Paul+Crowley
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They hope to release Version 4.0 as Open Source by mid-Feb, but until then they're still charging for Version 3 just as before.
Who's going to buy it? Of those who really have to have it right now, who's going to buy it and not throughly resent it? When Netscape announced the open sourcing of Netscape 5, they had the sense to make Version 4 gratis at the same time.
I'm not in the audience for this software anyway, it just seems a curious decision... --
"open source" by itself doesn't say much anymore
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jetson123
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The term "open source" really doesn't mean much anymore, other than that you get the sources in one way or another. I don't necessarily fault companies for that. The common sense meaning of "open source" is that you easily get the sources somehow, nothing more. I think the term is not well chosen, and we should abandon it. Many licenses that can be reasonably called "open source" do nothing to encourage sharing and joint development; in fact, they may outright prohibit it.
The "official" Open Source Definition tries to define "open source" more tightly. But since the term isn't trademarked and since it has a different common sense meaning, it fails. Furthermore, even the "Open Source Definition" has some holes in it.
In the short term, I suggest people stop getting excited just because a company announces releasing something "open source". We should wait until the sources and the license are available for everybody to look at.
In the long term, I think we need to replace the term "open source" with something more self-descriptive.
Two up and coming alternatives
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LizardKing
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There's aRts and Brahms for KDE which provide a virtual synthesiser and sequencer respectively. There is even talk of adding direct to disk recording (think Cubase VST) as aRts provides the means to do this. The URL's are:
For the GNOME fans among us, there is Beast which has been in devlopment for a long time but only recently saw the light of day. This gives similar functionality as aRts/Brahms. It's URL is:
http://beats.gtk.org/
Also check out news.gnome.org for the official announcement of a Beast snapshot.
There is also a venerable package called Rosegarden. Development has been a little bit spradic in the last couple of years, and it may be a little bit archaic to those used to GNOME or KDE interfaces. It is IMHO the best looking X Window application that doesn't rely on a true toolkit. Check it out at:
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/rose.html
There was talk of a new Rosegarden using the GNOME framework, but it hasn't progressed beyond the conceptual stage yet.
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They hope to release Version 4.0 as Open Source by mid-Feb, but until then they're still charging for Version 3 just as before.
Who's going to buy it? Of those who really have to have it right now, who's going to buy it and not throughly resent it? When Netscape announced the open sourcing of Netscape 5, they had the sense to make Version 4 gratis at the same time.
I'm not in the audience for this software anyway, it just seems a curious decision...
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The "official" Open Source Definition tries to define "open source" more tightly. But since the term isn't trademarked and since it has a different common sense meaning, it fails. Furthermore, even the "Open Source Definition" has some holes in it.
In the short term, I suggest people stop getting excited just because a company announces releasing something "open source". We should wait until the sources and the license are available for everybody to look at.
In the long term, I think we need to replace the term "open source" with something more self-descriptive.
There's aRts and Brahms for KDE which provide a virtual synthesiser and sequencer respectively. There is even talk of adding direct to disk recording (think Cubase VST) as aRts provides the means to do this. The URL's are:
a hms/
http://www.arts-project.org/
http://lienhard.desy.de/mackag/homepages/jan/Br
For the GNOME fans among us, there is Beast which has been in devlopment for a long time but only recently saw the light of day. This gives similar functionality as aRts/Brahms. It's URL is:
http://beats.gtk.org/
Also check out news.gnome.org for the official announcement of a Beast snapshot.
There is also a venerable package called Rosegarden. Development has been a little bit spradic in the last couple of years, and it may be a little bit archaic to those used to GNOME or KDE interfaces. It is IMHO the best looking X Window application that doesn't rely on a true toolkit. Check it out at:
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/rose.html
There was talk of a new Rosegarden using the GNOME framework, but it hasn't progressed beyond the conceptual stage yet.
Chris Wareham