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

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 14:22 +0000, John Rigg wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:55:13AM -0000, John Emmas wrote:
> > Corporate sponsors often tie up with a smaller partner in the expectation of
> > some kind of exclusive arrangement.  But it's pretty difficult to structure
> > a deal that's both exclusive and open at the same time.  SAE seems to be a
> > good fit but finding other sponsors like SAE might not be so simple.  Open
> > source products need open minded sponsors which probably rules out many
> > proprietory organisations.
> 
> There are conflicts of interest to consider. You'd be unlikely to get
> sponsorship from two companies making competing products, for example.

like Solid State Logic & Harrison, for example?