[linux-audio-dev] Read this after your first cup of coffee

[John Check]

On Tuesday 17 August 2004 08:13 pm, Dave Robillard wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 17:14, John Check wrote:
> > > group (tautological, I know, but bear with me).  Both perspectives are
> > > equally valid, and since they aren't mututally exclusive, let's be
> > > nice to each other.
> >
> > This is pretty sweet, I haven't heard any negatives.
>
> You seem surprised?

Well, pleasantly. I always account for having to defend myself in the time 
budget. I didn't expect too much opposition, but I'm always ready for it.

>
> The flames don't come from mentioning commercial endeavors using free
> software - you'll find very few people who are actually
> anti-making-money (a common misunderstanding about free software people)
>

I'm one of you, so I don't have to look to /. to know what it's about. ;)

> The flames come when you start talking about linux + proprietary
> software... (and some of them will be from myself, for the record).
> Free-as-in-speech and all that noise.
>
> There's nothing wrong with making commercial products out of LAD
> software - I doubt anyone's going to have a negative attitude about
> making jack/linux/etc based drop-in networked synths/etc.  It's a pretty
> cool idea, someone might even help. :)
>

Not negative.. I got jazzed and I didn't know if other people didn't because 
it'd been done and I didn't know about it or what. That been part of the due 
diligence phase. Discovery.

> -DR-