> care != contribute According to the English dictionary, you are right. But analyzing a "brick" out of the "buiding" perspective is what gets you in trouble: if you were more sensitive to the context and realized that this discussion is being held in the Linux audio DEVELOPMENT list, it would be easy then to assume that both you and I ARE contributing to the Linux community by developing/coding. So, if you don't have anything better then providing a thesaurus to this list, please either use LAU list, or start using that free time churning code (or even better providing ports to all of your alternative OS's that you so dearly care for).
> BTW2 I mostly use intel pc, I care for other platforms for reason hinted > above... Well then you surely have a lot to care for. Good luck! Designing a well implemented driver/app is one thing, while porting it is other, and as such they should be held separate. Design should always take precedence, obviously, while porting should be a project of the benefactor [at least in the non-paying world], not of provider, and as such, again should be separate. Thus, not "caring" for the porting part of the endeavors simply means that this should not be my priority or something I need to worry about. People who ported first audio apps to Linux (i.e. Mxv), were simply persons who HAD some interest in Linux and thus did so, regardless of OSS. Case and point: RT which is originally Paul Lansky's creation that ran on SGI and had nothing to do with OSS since SGI's audio architecture is/was way better than the OSS's -- its port was done by both Mike Peterson and Doug Scott, people who actually cared about/used Linux and worked out their own ways of porting it to Linux architecture using whatever they had at their disposal in terms of audio API). Paul Lansky, according to your messed-up view, should be then proclaimed "selfish" [or whatever that means for you] for not providing ported app to the Linux OS [both architectures are *nix, after all, right? -- even more so nowadays, since SGI is switching/ has already switched to Linux]... Quite on the contrary, my friend, Paul Lansky provided a great tool that is still being used nowadays (and should be under no circumstances called selfish for doing so), and thanks to Mike and Doug are we able to enjoy the same app on our favorite OS. Since you are so well versed in the usage of your thesaurus, next time be more careful in the usage of the words within the given context... Ico
