[A6] Os future..

[Jeff Platt]

> >> Has a synth OS been open-sourced before, as far as anyone knows? This
would
> >> be an excellent opportunity to see how the dynamics run in such a
situation.
> >  One catch is that a lot of commercial software is built with tools that
> > are just not easy to obtain.  Who knows whether there are
easily-available
> > Coldfire development environments that could even build the A6 OS.
Source
> > isn't much use if you can't turn it into object.
>
> At the risk of becoming OT: yes, it would be very interesting to see if
and how these
> issues would work itself out. ...A lot would depend on how much effort
Alesis would
> be prepared to put into making the process accessible, cleaning up code
and makefiles
> and such.

Of course I don't feel like I should say much without Alesis' OK, but I'm
still here :-)

Jeff