Thought-of-the-Day: Music Industry

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Originally Posted by jocko_nc

am this close <places thumb and index finger one mm apart> from converting this thing over to Linux. jocko

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Well, not to get too far off-topic, but at my work, we've been meeting about a plan to convert all our servers to Linux (maybe BSD Unix) to avoid rising Microsoft licensing fees. We will also be installing Linux on non-essential workstations (about 30% of our nodes). All this is part of a cost-reduction plan for software licensing fees that we plan to implement over the next 3 yrs or so. I'm not a Linux guy, but I'm very curious to see where this is headed.

Getting back to the music industry, I would be very interested in an Open-Source initiative for music. If there is already something like that out there, great, but if not, I wouldn't mind working on this.

Anyone know of any websites or groups working on this?

Adding to the list of open source software try openoffice.org for an office suite (spreadsheets, wordprocessor, presentations, etc). It is pretty good and a lot of it is very similar to microsoft products so it takes no time to learn.