we don’t support you if you want to build the software yourself (cause we provide binaries for a fee)
why don’t we have more developers?!?!
you know, does Ardour even need to be open source if noone understands it?
but we will not support you if you want to understand it
Man, Krita is extremely successful and even has a Steam version and you can just download the binaries anyway and the maintainer, Boudewijn Rempt is extremely supportive of anyone who wants to build from source.
Edit: Here, even nightly builds, for windows.
https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Krita_Nightly_Windows_Build/
but if noone pays for Ardour then we can’t work on it fulltime anymore
Then dont work on in fulltime anymore. Such a phrase does not make me feel pity or anything, it conveys to me that you want to do other, more lucrative things but “ony stay with Ardour as long as it pays but you’d rather do the other thing youd be doing if you weren’t paid for it”
So stop working on Ardour. Do the thing you’d do otherwise, and see what happens.
No really, do see what happens.
This is the youtube/media conundrum. “Without your support on patreon then we wouldn’t be able to make these videos”
Yeah well then quit!
“But I want to make videos…especially the attention w$%$e kind where I get to be a cool video personality”
Yeah, you do. So do it.
It’s also the chicken and the egg thing.
Did you get financed from the very start? If not, then how did Ardour even come to life?
Anyway. Instead of lamenting about open source being too obtuse, why don’t you teach people how to do it, beyond the basics on whose page you even go “Stop, do you really have to do this?” ?
Perhaps it would spark a passion in someone who might create something as good and accessible to everyone in the future, like ardour could be.
But yeah, I really really loathe the “I can’t work on this fulltime otherwise” thing prevalent in media.
Then don’t. Stop lowballing yourself with your ardour pity party and do your actual lucrative thing in the one lifetime you’re getting.