On 10/22/2002 - 04:46:47, Richard Bown said:
> On Monday 21 October 2002 20:21, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > But am I just wasting my breath because the Agnula crew are going to
> > do all the work for us?
>
> Oh well _now_ you come on to my pet subject.
>
> > Anyone from the Agnula project have a position on this?
>
> A while ago I got involved in a flamespat with the head honcho of AGNULA
> when I suggested that they should improve their communication with the
> rest of the LAD community and specifically with the development teams.
> I think we'd pretty much all like to know what's happening with AGNULA
> (apart from the minutes of their meetings) and naively I saw it as
> their job to tell us and be nice to us.
>
> While they do have selective communication with those that they consider
> to be key people I think my fundamental mistake was to actually think
> of AGNULA as an organisation. While it appears to be an organisation
> it's really just a tech project - it's run by geeks and it will aim to
> deliver some packaged apps and code in the time allowed. Once it's
> packaged it'll ship and LAD type projects will get exposure to the rest
> of the world through their distro. AFAICT that's the deal. While
> that's not a bad deal of course I think AGNULA should have more of a
> personality and a PR role with and in the LAD community. I've said in
> the past that I think it'd benefit "them" and "us".
>
> But hey. I'm not going to get on my hobby horse again over that one.
> No chance. No sir.
>
Too late :)
So we are not wasting our time to debate this. There is a real problem
that the professional side of this community is not really taking into
account.
I was sceptical that the Agnula team would be doing massive promotional
campaigns.
Peter you said that if we intend to make money out of Linux Audio we
*should* be paying for it. Well doesn't that alsao apply to studios and
professionals who intend solely to use the finished products to make money?
Patrick.
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