On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Mark Van Peteghem
<Mark.Van.Peteghem@telenet.be> wrote:
> I recall an article on Slashdot about software companies (I can't remember
> which) that couldn't sell their software with a profit anymore, and released
> it as open source. That would be the best solution for everybody. Of course
> there still would have to be enough developers that want to work on it. That
> is actually something that can happen to open source software as well, if
> programmers lose interest in an open source product, it dies.

There's also cost associated with moving the source to FOSS. Even if
the entire tree is owned by Tascam, they may not be willing to make it
open because of the cost. Then again, they probably have the money
(which maybe they could write off) and they would be seen as HEROES in
the audio world.