SonicAlbert
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Re:Future of Rax and Wormhole2 - 2007/02/18 01:15
I purchased RAX have found it to be one of those essential and unique Mac applications. This is not an application that should dissapear.
I suggest that you *do not* open source it or give it away, as that will permanently devalue it. While there might be an immediate thrill among some people to get such a great little app for free, in the long run development would cease and you would not be able sell it to a developer that would keep it going.
Ambrosia is not the company to sell it to in my opinion. They make games and other utilities and would have the same issues with it that you have, i.e. does it fit their product mix or is it a distraction.
A better fit might be with a company that already makes plugins, so that there would be an immediate symbiotic relationship between RAX and the rest of their product line.
Companies that come to mind are Native Instruments, Spectrasonics, East West, Yellow Tools to name a few. These companies make software instruments that run beautifully on RAX, so it's a perfect fit.
I used RAX and some of the above software instruments to program a show here in Los Angeles. The software (version 1.xx at that time) ran flawlessly and there was and is nothing out there that can do the same thing.
It would be a terrible loss for RAX to get frozen where it is and gradually fade away. For this reason I encourage you to try to get some value from it and sell it to a developer that will keep improving it. I don't see that happening with open sourcing or giving it away for free, so I highly discourage you from doing that.
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