On Saturday 05 June 2010 01:19 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
When people complain of FOSS alternatives not being good for multimedia, they generally talk about the small studio and dtp alternatives, where their budget is only enough to acquire these application and use, not modify them to suit their needs. Either their budgets are not big enough for it or they simply _don't_ want to get into those details. So they might use gimp and/or audacity, but will not pitch in to improve it if there is a feature missing due to the above constraints. They will drop it and move on.
So the statement gnu/linux not being good for design is very subjective and has to be put into context. In the latter context it is probably true to an extent, since there are no big spenders using (and hence contributing to) it.
Points well said. May I suggest that big FOSS based companies like RedHat etc. should step into this area of professional media software and come up with some rock solid, user friendly and agile software for the industry. They can provide professional support for the same to big studios and the smaller ones can get the free-of-brand versions for free. Then they can promote the same in colleges and universities, along with training infrastructure. Students going into the industry should go with first hand knowledge of such software.