[peatmoss]

Oh, yes, certainly my comment about selling out to the man was made tongue-in-cheek, poking fun at my younger self and how very serious I was about these things in the past. I am happy to see OSS earn some money for their efforts, even if my general personal disposition is still for open source.

I was a bit surprised to hear they are still a business in 2021. I see they are still releasing OSS and much of it under a GPL license too. I gather their OSS product customers must have some specialist sound system requirements for Linux / FreeBSD.

[arp242]

I'm not sure if they're really "in business" as such; it gets some very occasional updates for new kernels (last release: 2019), but that's about it. See e.g.: http://ossnext.trueinstruments.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&...

With ALSA, Pulseaudio, and now Pipewire there's not much point really; maybe it's better but that ship has sailed, on Linux anyway. It's become VHS vs. Betamax-kind of lamenting.

4Front seems to be working on https://www.truepianos.com now; though that one's not open source and no Linux version either.