Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Question to developers of sound editors.
From: John Lazzaro (lazzaro_AT_CS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Mon Jun 04 2001 - 20:42:52 EEST
> While I'm all for diversity and totally respect that you guys are doing
> it purely for the love of it, it seems kind of pointless that all these
> are being worked on seperately. Is there a reason for this indivuality
> that goes beyond a simple case of disorganisation?
One of my favorite technology interviews of all time was the set of
interviews Byte magazine did when the original Macintosh was released
in the early 80's. One of the software folks (Bill Atkinson, I think)
described how he spent a seemingly unreasonable number of months writing
small assembly language programs that bounced balls around the screen
once the first hardware prototypes were ready to code, before he even
considered planning the software graphics architecture, because he
needed a real intuitive feel for what the hardware could do.
I think some Linux audio projects are really at that point of development
right now -- the point of the projects are to learn how to do things
right, not to make a usable tool ASAP. Much like IETF working group
discussions in the first few years of a new standard. Once there's
consensus on a topic, I think you'll see consolidation happen pretty
quickly ... and untill there's consensus, consolidation is counterproductive
to a good final outcome.
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John Lazzaro -- Research Specialist -- CS Division -- EECS -- UC Berkeley
lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro
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