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

[Jörn Nettingsmeier]

Paul Davis 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!

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