> This is a fair question. First, "many people" might promote OSS, but that > doesn't mean unconditional surrender. ;) I mean, I was really quite > offended by Ivica's message where he proposed that JACK developers are > arrogant if they don't implement x and y. OSS or not, that's not very nice > considering how much free time we have spend on this.
And what do you think how do I feel when I contribute to this community with my apps (which certainly are nothing even close in scope or quality to Ardour, but are my best and most honest shot at it), spend most of my time promoting Linux, conceiving a Linux & Multimedia class at my University and teaching it, convincing my mentor that the Linux is the way to go by purchasing new Linux machines, and evangelizing Linux/Alsa/Jack among my peers, and all this without any compensation whatsoever? Do you think my time is any less valuable than yours? Besides, I was, and still am the advocate of Alsa. But even Alsa supports OSS apps (to some extent), so I have no clue as to why you are placing me in the OSS camp. If you read my post carefully, you'd realize that I am talking about good quality apps that will simply not be usable with Jack framework which is a shame, and as such would limit user's ability to unlock the full potential of Linux audio... The arrogance I spoke of you managed to misinterpret rather well. What I spoke of is the fact when addressing this issue to Jack developers, you get cornered into a situation where you are "damned if you do present the issue, and damned if you don't" while at the same time Jack developers simply suggest the impossible: why don't you port all those 1000+ apps to Jack? So if I come out with a suggestion, then I get flamed all over for it, but if I keep quiet, then I cannot use it for what I need it for. If that did not come of as described above, then I do apologize. Every wish for contribution that came from my mouth was in a form of suggestion/criticism/request for a feature, because that is the most comprehensive and quickest way of presenting the case. After all, stroking egos will not make Jack any better... Every one of those was met with a strong opposition and defensive behavior. I want to contribute, but if the project developers to whose project I want to contribute to marginalize my suggestion for contribution, then what's the point? Ico