Hey Johnny,

these are things that are definitely important. But I think high quality audio production will not need lossy codecs like mp3 and its proprietary licenses.

There is enough license-compatible high quality software out there.
If someone needs something on top one must build it himself, i.e. when converting is a kind of need.

Regards
Tim



Am 18. Februar 2016 15:31:21 MEZ, schrieb Johnny Hughes <johnny@centos.org>:
On 02/17/2016 03:42 PM, Tim wrote:
Hi all,

I would like to propose a new SIG for audio production.

This would primarily cover to setup a digital audio workstation. I
started to build some packages for this like plugins, configurations and
a realtime kernel (built from git.centos.org <http://git.centos.org>)
for a public repository.
During doing all this stuff I thought of founding a SIG.

I think, CentOS will be the right distribution for this, because it is
really stable, reliable and long term supported.

Regards
Tim

I think this is an outstanding idea and I support it.

One thing to keep in mind though is patents that require compensation.
I think mp3's (for example) still fall into that category.

We can't approve things in the SIG that will violate IP law in the USA.
And please let's not start a discussion on the validity of those laws.
I don't know anyone who thinks they are great or wants them to exist ..
but they do and we have that limitation.

But, outside of that limitation, I am 100% supportive of an Audio
Production SIG.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes




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