[LAD] Open Source to be or not to be?

[Etienne Rouge]

Anyone else ?

On 01/07/2014 14:37, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> On Tue, July 1, 2014 10:06 pm, Etienne Rouge wrote:
>> This topic's just gone full chaos quite a while ago.
>>
>>
>> I'd love to read things without seeing people namely attacked or things
>> completly off topic.
>>
>> Open source is a great ideal. But *today* it's a thankless ideal.
>>
>> What about tomorrow ?
>>
>> Either we quit this ideal and just go back 20years in the past (and if
>> we have to chose a closed proprietary market, I'd rather have those good
>> ol' big boxes full of stuffs rather than DRMs - which are both based on
>> the same economical model) or we find a way to get open source
>> developers rewarded. Rewarded socially, personally, and financially.
>>
>> Solving that is the only way to stop escalating to the emotional level
>> at light speed.
>>
>> And that'd be great.
>>
> Your opening rant was pretty emotional and potentially insulting to the
> guitarix team and the above is not much less.
>
> Welcome to Linux Audio. A bunch of emotional artistes/developers ranting
> about the state of things with occasional forays into useful information
> and community cohesiveness. The latter often being considered dirty words
> uttered by uninitiated well meaning idiots.
>
> Parasites and pedants, godly beings with entitlement syndrome and the
> barely literate wholly unwashed.  It's a rare brew.
>
> These ideals that you speak of don't mean much without the support of a
> wider community but not everyone can justify contributing their
> time/energy with zero financial reward. So while some people consider it
> to be theft if other people find a way to profit from open source other
> people consider it to be a useful and worthwhile outcome that in the long
> run benefits the wider community.
>
> Fons wouldn't have to work for the man if he was able to generate a decent
> income from his open source ouvre. Yet he has routinely been one of the
> most vocal in his abhorrence of anyone profiting directly from his code.
> Even more so if someone else has figured out a way to do it that he
> personally doesn't have the motivation or interest to do on his own.
>
> Herman doesn't deserve to be painted as the bad guy, neither Stephane.
> They are both active and genuinely contributive LAD'ers who are making
> worthwhile progress and providing useful results.
>
>
>
>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> T.
>>
>>
>> On 01/07/2014 13:47, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>> On Tue, July 1, 2014 9:29 pm, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 09:13:06PM +1000, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Fons is truly a saintly enigma destined for greater things that are
>>>>> not
>>>>> of
>>>>> this mortal coil.
>>>> Ad hominem remarks are usually a clear sign of not having
>>>> anything better to say.
>>>>
>>>> FYI, Fons will very probably move to Germany in a few weeks,
>>>> to be employed as Senior Researcher by a *very* big, not
>>>> government funded and profit making corporation. How this
>>>> will affect my ability to stay active in open source audio
>>>> is still a matter to be discussed. But it's very well possible
>>>> that you will get rid of me, so start preparing the feast.
>>>>
>>> I'll eat my hat if Fons gives up open source development because he has
>>> to
>>> commit all his personal resources to the Man.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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