On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 00:09, Bob Ham wrote: > I thought I'd provide a little dramatisation of what this whole debacle > looks like to me: > > <Daniel> LAD_Dude_1: Hey dude, I've got this idea for a group to help > linux audio developers and corporate interests get along better, what do > you think? > <LAD_Dude_1> Daniel: Sounds like a good idea. > <Daniel> LAD_Dude_2: What do you think? > <LAD_Dude_2> Daniel: Aye, sounds good. Going to need a web site and > mailing list and whatnot tho. > <Daniel> Aye, I'll register linuxaudio.org > <Daniel> Mandrake (TM): You interested? > <Mandrake (TM)> Daniel: Definately > <Marek (overhearing)> Daniel: Hey! I was going to do that! You > bastard!
Sorry Bob, but i never used one swear word in this discussion. And Daniels project definitely isn't what i was going to do. > <Marek> LAD_People: HEY! DANIEL'S STARTED A WHOLE LINUX AUDIO > DEVELOPER'S CONSORTIUM WITHOUT CONSULTING ANY OF US! That wasn't my point. I'm sad it's still not clear what i'm talking about. > <LAD_Dude_3> WTF?! > <LAD_Dude_4> What a bastard! > <LAD_Dude_5> How dare you! > <Daniel> Hold on a sec, dudes, it doesn't exist yet. I haven't even > written a web page! > <LAD_Dude_4> What a bastard! > <LAD_Dude_5> How dare you! > > To those shouting "bastard!", I say: chill, for the moment at least. > > I also provide below a mail I sent to Joern Nettingsmeier before > christmas. While Daniel's and my ideas differ somewhat in the necessary > approach; co-operation vs defense, our aim is the same: to help bring > linux audio software out of bedrooms and into studios while maintaining > the freedom of that software. It's worth noting that whether or not a > party is a corporation or a tree hugging hippy (to epitomise the two > sides of that coin) is irrelevant; the issue is whether or not they > support free software, or the kind of proprietary software that stifles > the communities that have developed around places like the > linux-audio-dev list. I know <snip> plenty of > corporations prepared to stand firm on the principles of software > freedom. Could you name those audio related? Marek