Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: linuxaudio.org
From: Marek Peteraj (marpet_AT_naex.sk)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2004 - 04:00:01 EET
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
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