On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:51 AM, John Lato <jlato@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Do you pay for new versions of Reaper, or have you paid for it in the past?
>  Have you ever donated to the Csound project, or any other OSS audio
> project?  Or offered a contract programming job to implement some
> functionality in OSS?  Time is a limited resource, and most OSS programmers
> and projects have to set priorities.  Installers and packages for multiple
> platforms are especially problematic because of the expense of acquiring
> multiple hardware configurations and the effort to coordinate multiple OS
> configurations.  Just because you aren't a programmer doesn't mean you can't
> contribute to open source :)

Very good points!  And just for the record, while I have not
contributed to the Reaper project specifically yet, I have
contributed/paid for closed-source and OSS software.

-- 
Josh Lawrence
http://www.hardbop200.com