--Lea: > Generally, musicians don't give a toss whether > something is > free(Opensource) or not (let the flaming begin).
Exactly. I think programmers need to stop being elitists. It is hurting the adoption of Linux. To most people I know that don't code, free as in beer and free as in speech are indistinguishable. Their attraction to OpenOffice is their naive free ride complex and nothing else. --Stonekeeper: > > and doesnt interact well with the rest of the > Linux stuff > > (jack/ladspa). Truth be told, this is one of the most usable Linux audio apps I've seen in a long time... coming from a novice to Linux audio coding and sadly, it is probably because he didn't try to make it compatible with the many Linux audio standards (just one more thing to discourage him from making Linux apps) --Stonekeeper: > > Also considering linux distros losing their binary > compatibility > > every now and then, nobody ensures that this will > continue working > > in the future. That's a problem with the distros of Linux and not with his codemanship. No one but a programmer should be required to compile an app from scratch. --Lea: > Look, spend your effort giving the guy a pat on the > back and stop > sh*tting on his efforts to bring a decent music > program to the linux > community. He probably knows nothing about binary > compatibility! Give > him a hand if you feel it's an issue. agreed. I think if someone told him that he'd be scorned for not letting us peer into the code and making it JACK and LADSPA and ABCD and LMNOP and the new, experimental ZNABCD (ZNABCD is not ABCD) compatible, he would be scared away for sure. Good thing he knew of none of this! Let's start a misinformation campaign: "make audio programs for Linux! It's easy! Fewer audio standards to worry about! supportive developers that will applaud you for making a good try! No open-source zelouts to speak of!" Hmmm.. I don't know what programmer would be dumb enough to buy this nonsense.. --Stonekeeper: > > On the other hand, cheesetracker has about the > same functionality (probably > > more in many aspects), and it's opensource, only > lacks the nice gui :) I think you are grossly underestimating the importance of aethetics! and the gui is part aesthetics, part usability. -Thomas J. Webb __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/
