On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 23:30 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > the competing APIs is definitely a problem. the OSS guys > > continue to refuse to accept ALSA, and continue to promote > > the benefits of their API and libraries. The layers that > > have been built on top of them (PortAudio, JACK, the arts > > audio api, gnome-sound, etc) continue to compete with each > > other in various ways. > > That's not a problem, that's the usual evolution as seen may > times in the free software world.
i disagree. i think it *is* a problem. its not a problem for people willing and able to grapple with the implications of this "evolution" (like myself and yourself). but its a huge issue to people who just want it to work "the way it does on OS X" or even "the way it does on windows". --p
