Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Finale for Linux
From: RickTaylor_AT_speakeasy.net
Date: Fri Jul 09 2004 - 23:30:37 EEST
On 09-Jul-2004 Chris Pickett wrote:
} Chris Pickett wrote:
} > RickTaylor_AT_Speakeasy.Net wrote:
} >> I'm thinking more along the lines of a open source system with shareware
} >> apps.
} >>I think the system itself would go down the tubes if you started getting
} >>internal competition, etc.
} >
} >
} > I guess ... I guess I've stopped distinguishing between system and
} > application. Is Mozilla part of the system? Or is it definitely an
} > application? Do you define application by replaceable, non-essential
} > part? What's essential? Is X essential? How about bash? Is the linux
} > kernel even essential? Can't you run this software with a different
} > kernel? I basically view everything as a set of interoperating programs
} > -- including the music stuff -- although I might concede that the kernel
} > is perhaps the only "true" system component.
}
} What I meant to say was, every piece is essential in a fluid,
} well-functioning system, and there is no differentiation between them,
} but if one insists on drawing a line somewhere then it's between kernel
} space and userland. Including music stuff :)
In other words Photoshop is essential to a graphics system?
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