[Ardour-Users] Could this solve Ardour's financial headache?

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 21:57 +0000, John Rigg wrote:
>
>> I don't object to paying for Ardour (and I certainly don't begrudge
>> the meagre subscription fee) but the extra effort of removing
>> this stuff before being able to use the latest code would
>> probably discourage me from doing so. It has to be possible to
>> get svn code that is free of these things even if it means paying.
>
> Aha! So the plan emerges. I totally screw up the public releases with
> blinking banner ads, RSS tickers, nag screens and IP-based "phone home"
> stuff, making the program very unpleasant to use and THEN ... start
> charging for access to the "clean" version only available via for-fee
> SVN.
>
> I love it when a plan comes together!
>
I totally pity new users (and old users like me who've pissed you off
one too many times). Life is about to get really ugly. Can you make
the screenshots on the web site blink also? ;-)

Cheers,
Mark