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. 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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