I'm glad to hear Ardour is working well for you. I honestly had assumed it wouldn't be making much income, though I now realize that was based on just about no information (the sole data point I had was that it worked poorly for me when I attempted a trial on macOS about two years ago). I'm glad to hear I was mistaken about that.
I wasn't aware that VCV Rack was actually profitable either, nor that there's a mixture of libre and paid modules available for it. I'd vaguely considered that as a business model for OSS audio stuff in years past but didn't think it was likely to work in practice. Apparently I may be wrong about that - do you know if anyone's actually making decent income selling closed modules for VCV Rack?
You make a good point about running sclang as a standalone process to firewall the GPL from the rest of a product. Somehow that hadn't occurred to me, but it seems like it would work.
Overall - thanks for the rebuttal. You make a strong case that open source audio software is more compatible with commercial sales than I thought, and I appreciate you taking the time to do it.
I wasn't aware that VCV Rack was actually profitable either, nor that there's a mixture of libre and paid modules available for it. I'd vaguely considered that as a business model for OSS audio stuff in years past but didn't think it was likely to work in practice. Apparently I may be wrong about that - do you know if anyone's actually making decent income selling closed modules for VCV Rack?
You make a good point about running sclang as a standalone process to firewall the GPL from the rest of a product. Somehow that hadn't occurred to me, but it seems like it would work.
Overall - thanks for the rebuttal. You make a strong case that open source audio software is more compatible with commercial sales than I thought, and I appreciate you taking the time to do it.