[LAU] dyn is noise : drone synth software

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Sat Feb 5 16:27:32 UTC 2011


On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Folderol <folderol at ukfsn.org> wrote:

> I don't think it's users of a specific OS, more of a case of extremely selfish
> people who think the world owes them ... everything. They just don't seem to
> connect with the idea of doing something for fun but making it available to
> others with no specific commitment.
>
> How sad it must be to have a mindset where your first thought is 'what do I get
> for it' when doing anything.

in defense of CDM commenters, i don't think that this is the mindset
at all, really. i think its more like "look, 98.5% of all possible
users of this stuff do not run linux, so why would you release a cool
creative tool that only runs on a platform that almost nobody uses?"

*if* the percentages are roughly correct (and they likely are), then i
think its a reasonable question to ask. however, the questioner needs
to be able to deal with the answer being something along the lines of
"because i wanted to" or "because i didn't write it for all those
other people" or even "because i wanted other people who use the same
platform as me to have more cool tools" or perhaps even "because i
think its a better platform". i think its fine to ask the question,
but people have to accept the answer too.


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