On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:58:43 +0000 Fons Adriaensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:13:06PM +0200, Stéphane Letz wrote: > > > Fons, you know what? the Faust zita-rev1 version (still old > > one of course..) now even runs in the web, automagically compiled > > in asm.js (http://asmjs.org) using latest faust2 git version > > and running at acceptable speed in recent browsers like Firefox > > or Chrome (still some issues here…) : > > And what's the point of running a concert hall reverb in a web > browser ? Providing a new 'business model' for audio engineering ? > With some advertising around it and Google reaping the benifits > and diverting them to some low tax island inhabitated by the > stinking rich and their imported household slaves ? If that is > the future of open source software, I'll step out. Or is it some > form of masturbation for IT engineers who have nothing better to > do ? Or are they too stupid to grok what's going on ? > > Ciao, I think sometimes people do it just because they can, or in your words, masturbation. Or because they think for some reason pushing everything into the web is a good idea. Why else would people write a html5 backend for GTK? In my opinion they're full of shit, but as long as they don't try to impose their idiocy on me I don't care too much. The only trouble is that many people think everything on the web is a good idea because many people think that everything on the web is a good idea. It's a severe lack of reflection, but that's nothing new. Regards, Philipp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
