Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 00:18:00 EEST
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:26:07 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote:
> > I don't want to see linux apps turning into slickly hyped lifestyle
> > products like the rest of the music software business. We should push
> > the advantages we have,
>
> What advantages? Free as in beer?
Free as in beer is good. Not having to use windows is good. Mostly I just
like the tools - varied, sometimes wacky and generally really versatile and
easy to hack.
> I've never seen such inapt community btw, which is totally ignorant in
> organizing itself. See the gnome community which started to exist the
> same year. They have more conferences per year, one of them being
> huge(guadec) with sponsors, larger companies involved, and *most* of
> *all* they're a centralised community.
Good. I /like/ the current (lack of) linux audio community. Its not like
we're one homogenous organisation. Were just a bunch of people who hack
linux audio systems. Its great :)
The only real connection we have is that were all doing audio hacking
under linux - some are using GTK and C, some Qt and C++, some python...
I think the linux audio world is too small and varied to have a tightly
knit organisation like the Gnome guys.
- Steve
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