[linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 17:50, Marek Peteraj wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 00:24, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 15:26, Marek Peteraj wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 13:17, Dave Griffiths wrote:
> > > > Personally speaking, as a free software developer I don't care if my
> > > > programs are deemed as sucessful, they work for me, and handful of other
> > > > people - this makes me happy :)
> > > 
> > > I'd like to see what other developers of the most popular linux audio
> > > projects think. 
> > 
> > Most probably you will find out (when/if other developers care to speak
> > out) that this view is shared by many, if not all, developers, and not
> > just in the audio world. Great projects in the open source community
> > usually happen when a motivated individual or group _needs_ something.
> > It is not the needs of the world (usually), or "user demand", or the
> > desire to fill or create a marketing niche, it is their need.
> 
> That is very untrue, and evolution and the motivations behind that app
> prove that.

I'm missing something. Which app? What is untrue? What I just wrote? Let
the developers speak, please. So far they are saying what I stated, more
or less. Now, if what the developers themselves say does not matter, or
if you know their (our) minds better than ourselves then this is all
rather pointless. 

-- Fernando