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

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

> > > 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?
> 
> The email client. Which one are you using?

Evolution. I may be in the wrong thread, was there a discussion about
email clients?

> > What I just wrote? Let the developers speak, please. 
> 
> The devs are themselves users.

And they are speaking. 
-- Fernando