While Davis's income from Ardour had improved by June 2009, an interview with Music CD featuring artists who use Ardour, to celebrity endorsements. Patrick Shirkey of Boost Hardware then suggestedĪ number of possible funding sources, ranging from seeking grants, to a The community remained concerned about sustainable funding, with the topicĭominating discussion on the development mailing For example, in an OctoberĪrdour 2, Forrest Cook reported that the multimedia-focused Ubuntu Users, this seems not to have led to a sustainable model, as popular Linuxĭistributions packaged Ardour for their users. However, with the project only targeting Linux and Mac OS X
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Full source code remains available forįree download. $1, $4, or $10 per month, with a $50/month option for institutions.
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Web site visitors could only download binaries with a paid In 2007, the project started a subscription-basedįunding model. Unrelated development job that would consume most of his time during the As a result, for a time, he would have to take an To the development mailing list in May 2005, Davis explained that he had To skip the 1.0 release and make major changes for a 2.0 release). Release in September 2005 (developers made a decision But the issue of financial sustainability would rear its head Several years, buoyed by a windfall from his work for in itsĮarly days. What happened? How did a project that received both commercial attentionĪnd high praise from users not find the means to fund one developerįull-time? To help figure that out, we will need to take a look Ardour'sĭavis had started the project in 2000, working full-time on Ardour for Likely shift gears on that work in the near future. However, the message is clear: Ardour's lead developer will The post that he is not abdicating his role as leadĭeveloper.
Picking up the burden, and an insistence that his message is not a requestįor funding. The income trend, it appears to me that I will probably have to.Ĭoncluded the post with uncertainty about the prospects of the community Particularly want to go down this route, but given the current "curve" of What I perceive the needs and desires of Ardour users to be, and will beĭominated by what another company thinks I should be doing. Will still be working on Ardour's codebase, but my focus will cease being
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