On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff <yks-...@yandex.ru> wrote: > On 26.04.2013 19:41, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff <yks-...@yandex.ru> >> wrote: >>> >>> In the end, I humbly believe it's up to me to judge what effect there is >>> for >>> me on my computers. >> >> >> Yes, that's exactly the point. Scroll up and reread this thread, >> though, and you'll get the impression that some complainers seem to >> think that Lennart is breaking into their systems and magickally >> installing his 175-year old software in them. What's this about 100% >> of the users being "forced" to have pulseaudio in? > > > Yes, being. > I don't know if Lennart writes great code (doesn't seem like that though) > but what I can see is that he never asks what people need. He forces his > self-righteous software upon us as a sole alternative. Instead of first > creating (at least talking over) protocols which are (no need to explain > why) better, he creates a proggy which aims to be all-powerful all-solving > (including adobe flash's bugs) and probably to conquer all the world. > I don't know again. That's the impression. Maybe there's one who knows > better. But AFAICT all (really) great software talks protocols and > standards. In Lennart's works, I don't see any. > And that said, yes, I'm being forced. Gradually it all goes for us all to > have to have his works installed everywhere. Someone's justifying this by > "the needs of 1% users", the other one by "the ease to maintain one library > instead of a lot", the next one by it being brand new -- regardless. It's > kinda mass psychosis. Whatever you say if not "it's great", you get: "oh, > again you with your criticism of lennart"? "I have *** installed and it > works, and you are kinda dumb yourself" etc. > It doubtlessly greatly assists in inclining my point of view towards > installing lennart's stuff, yeah.
You do realize that Lennart hasn't been the maintainer of PulseAudio since *BEFORE* the 1.0 release? And that now it has in fact many contributors, and they just released 3.0 in December and are getting ready to release 4.0? And that systemd/udev has dozens of contributors, from (basically) all the distributions, and that several of them are kernel developers? You may not like the *design* of the stuff, but you certainly can't complaint about the *quality* of it. You are not being forced to anything: in the worst case you can patch all the programs you use, the code is out there. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
