I think what we really need is for csound to become the standard sound engine for linux, similar to the function it plays on OLPC. If say ubuntu linux had that kind of audio/midi functionality "out of the box" it would be really powerful. Then you don't need seperate sampler or synthesis programs, csound could act as the "defacto" softsynth and have easy to use programs like Tam Tam in OLPC.

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la@mega-nerd.com> wrote:
Brad Fuller wrote:

> 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.

The case of Blender is every interesting:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)#History

It was closed source and was "bought" by the open source community.

Erik
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