On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:22:55PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: > > That was exactly Dave's point. Marek wants some kind of "we" thing going on. > > He wants us all to march off in solidarity in the direction he chooses and it > > just doesn't work that way. You want to make money, I don't care, Dave doesn't > > care, Paul wants to make money... There is no single correct direction here. > > > > > > Jan > > Thank you Jan, you've summarized my admittedly flammable rant quite > nicely. :) > > I think LAD is just great the way it is: a bunch of people hacking on > linux audio software, doing whatever interests them. Make money, don't, > contribute to existing projects, code your own weird little apps noone > could possile use but you, advocate, never talk to anyone, whatever. > > In short, do whatever pleases ya.
Of course, do whatever pleases ya, nobody is really saying otherwise, despite what it might sound like. I think the phrase "march off in solidarity in the direction he chooses" is maybe a little unfair. I for one am willing to give him some leaway. His fishing expedition was reasonable successful, i would say, in that he now has a broad range of opinions within which he can come up with a more concrete generally acceptable proposal. These disussions always hilight the differences, but lets use this to take note of what we have in common, and make _use_ of the extremely varied backgrounds and usage expectations here, to further one aim that i would hope that we could all agree on: "we want/need better software tools" Marek obviously has some interests/skills that most hardcore programmers dont have, so if he comes up with a plan that furthers the above aim, i for one will assist in it. -- Tim Orford