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by themerone 1517 days ago
I hope this goes better than the opening of Lightworks. Lightworks got so much free publicity from announcing an open source version it saved their business (my theory at least.)

This strikes me more as a retirement plan for the Goldwave devs.

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> This strikes me more as a retirement plan for the Goldwave devs.

If every software company closed shop by going open source, the world would be a better place:)

Blender was one of the first if not first multimedia development tool to ever follow the path of proprietary -> donations to limit -> FOSS. Long before ie. Kickstarter was a thing.