[linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer

[Marek Peteraj]

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 16:18, Jan Depner wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 19:58, Dave Robillard wrote:
> 
> > Your initial reply to me, which was not about the issue at hand
> > whatsoever - you called me obnoxious and insulting.  That counts as a
> > personal attack in my books, and immediately forced the discussion in a
> > useless direction.  Point is you made comments about me personally, not
> > my statements (always the sign of someone with no argument to stand on,
> > BTW)
> > 
>     I didn't call you obnoxious.  I asked you to stop being obnoxious. 
> A fine difference I admit but a difference anyway.  You *did* insult a
> number of people by calling their ideas ignorant so

I didn't find it insulting. 

> 
> > - Petition.  Probably not the right attitude we want to project, and
> > less impact than many individual letters anyway.
> > 
>     Agreed.  The only good point is that it's much easier to get people
> to sign an online petition than sending individual letters.

Not really if you take people into account that either find it
uncomfortable to use their real names on the internet(which is fine with
me) and possible spam in case they're asked for email. 

Plus there's the chance to get more people into linux audio, since
almost *everybody* there is able to run LA with his audio hw. 

Guess why. :)

> > - Forum posting.  Apparently there's an RME forum?  Never seen it
> > personally.  Possibly better than email letters because it's
viewable by
> > the public and they can't just ignore all of us.  Plus a productive
> > conversation might result.
> >
>    As long as we keep it respectable.

Negative emotions are ok.
Positive emotions are ok.
No emotions are ok.

I can't tell anyone to behave in a certain way.

There's no such thing as collective responsibility in this case.

Marek