Ardour was written to run on operating systems that properly and efficiently support a portable operating system standard called POSIX (endorsed by the US government and many other large organizations). The obstacles are relatively few in number, but rather substantial in significance. There have been several discussions about porting Ardour to Windows. Also, what you said about their being no ardour for windows just isn’t true. I actually pay for the Windows software I use and rely on. 95% of windows crashes are due to poorly coded 3rd party software, dont you know. Microsoft still stands because, aside from weak default security settings, they have a reliable OS. Making open source apps run on windoze also adds buoyancy to that rats nest too, and it’s great that Ardour will not support it.” The only reason microsoft still stands as a company is because of piracy… and if everyone had to actually pay for their software that ship would sink quicker than the Titanic. “Actually I wish none of the Linux FOSS apps were ported to windoze. How rude! Now lets take apart what you just said. Do yourself a favor and make the jump from windoze to Linux and don’t look back, because it’s a lot easier to install Linux on a PC (Ubuntu Studio has Ardour pre-installed in an ISO, for example) than it is to code the changes need to compile Ardour for windoze. Microsoft is already giving away XP to some favored PC builders, and the absolute low-end CPU’s are plenty powerful for running Linux, so the clock is ticking on their demise. But that’s not the only pressure on microsoft: when the price of PC hardware becomes obscenely cheap, commodity prices below $200, windoze will be priced out of the equation. There was even a movement inside the warez community which advocated, “no crack for vista.” It seemed odd that for months there was no crack and only feeble attempts like resetting the trial period clock, and then a new warez group emerged with a legitimate crack, some claim it came from microsoft itself. ![]() There have been many many arrests over the last few years and some piracy groups have outright quit. One funny footnote to this is that the warez scene is dying. Congrats on pirating VisualStudio, it shows that you should have no problem pirating Sonar, Cubase, or dozens of smaller sequencers. That is so naive that I feel like hitting you with a stick. ![]() You seem to think it’s as simple as adding a library/API, compling, and poof! it’s done. Now to the possibility of a port: for you, zero. Making open source apps run on windoze also adds buoyancy to that rats nest too, and it’s great that Ardour will not support it. I wish none of the Linux FOSS apps were ported to windoze.
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