Sound quality assessment

[steve]

I'm on Linux, but not Ubuntu. Is the source code available or is it closed source?

[sevana]

Sorry, source code is not available... Any Linux will work. Those I mentioned are related to builds available for commercial evaluation.

[steve]

OK, thanks, but in that case I don't see why it is appropriate to ask on this (Audacity support) forum, for our (open source) community members to contribute to your closed source commercial product. On the other hand, we do welcome contributions to Audacity, whether that be in terms of development, testing, documentation, translation, donation, helping out on this forum, or other contributions, as Audacity is a community product, created and supported by, and for the benefit of Audacity users. "Open Source" is about sharing knowledge and not just what you can get for nothing.

[sevana]

Ok, as you could see from the upper posts we wanted to contribute upon feedback from Koz. However, if that's not the right place to ask for evaluation of our technology I am sorry and welcome to delete this discussion branch. There are things that don't let everything to be open source... these are IPRs, patents, decades of investments in technology without any contribution or donation, and if looking deeper open source is also just a yet another way of making money.

[steve]

Although this topic is not strictly within the scope of this forum I don't think that we need to delete it. it may be of interest to some of our users, and I believe that this conversation is the first contact between your company and ourselves, so I am happy to leave it up as a mark of good will. If you release free or open source software that you feel may be of interest to Audacity users, you are welcome to start a new topic about that.

Regards,
Steve