What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great? (was Re: [linux-audio-dev] Best-performing Linux-friendly MIDI interfaces?)

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 11:27 +0200, Jay Vaughan wrote:
> jwz, like it or not, leads opinion.  he makes news.  agree with him 
> or disagree with him: you're still being led into an opinion on a 
> subject as a result of his effort, either way.

Who in the hell is this jwz, and why does everyone care what he thinks
so much?  Can someone at least post a link to this rant of his?

Lee