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From the get started page

  "If you are unsure which computer/laptop/tablet to purchase
  and are considering spending a lot of money then please email me 
  - I can offer personal advice on how to target the sweet spot 
  between cost and performance (and screen size)."

So not only is he giving away this amazing software but he is also offering free, personal advice on what you need to buy working with your budget!

Truly an inspiring person.

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"The way to take over an industry is not to fix the current model, but to completely destroy it and replace it with a model you know is better"

Open source is the better model for every single industry. It's coming.

Do you think open source fine art is better than one from a single artist's vision?

Art has been quite open source in its workings since centuries. Look at how artists were joining masters to learn the art and how they "forked" masters' techniques to create theirs. Personal vision is not precluded from open source, to the contrary it is encouraged.

R&B, EDM, pop and so on wouldnt have much left without remixes and sampling.

But in that case money changes hands. That's pretty different from open source.

Nothing about open source precludes money from changing hands. Case in point: Red Hat.

Those aren't necessarily mutually exclusive options. Something can be "open source" and still have only one contributor.

Yes. Open source is about way more than the finished product; it's about the shared community, techniques, processes, and tools.

It's not a panacea. Open source software is nice when it doesn't put contibutors into the poor house while corporations depend on the code at large-scale and don't support what they take. Open source software is great for SDKs and other supporting materials, but Github and Google aren't going to make their core infrastructure available to all... it defies common sense.

Furthermore, companies which would lose more profit than hard-to-monetize goodwill gained, by releasing something their competitors can use against them, has as much chance as an airplane made of lead.

Open source can help sell small products get initial traction but it makes them easy to knock-off and easy to steal (unless you make the build process hard and fragile)... It just won't scale because human nature.

Define common sense please. Also please define human nature... Who would steal this software? What for? To compete against something free?

Please gain more points by not demanding impossibly-unreasonable answers.

Life experience and wisdom cannot be taught easily.

What's amazing is that I could see a cottage industry around this with respect to google glass like overlays that allow for visual navigation of the overlay... I think we have our first entry into the cyberpunk visual navigation future being seeded by this guys great work.

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