[LAU] Linux Audio podcast. episode002

[Dan MacDonald]

If you don't care what other users think of your software, why release the
source?


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 5:53 PM, J. Liles <malnourite at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>wrote:
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>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:44 PM, J. Liles <malnourite at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>  To put it another way, any aspect of the software,be it features or
>>> fixes, that does not directly affect the workflow of the developer is done
>>> purely for the sake of others
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>> the topic of the semi-private ardour developers IRC channel is this:
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>>      One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the
>> doing is what we do for others. (Lewis Carroll)
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>> honestly, i'm not attempting to sound preachy.
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> To be clear, I'm not advocating not helping others, I'm simply pointing
> out the altruistic nature of developers responding to bug reports. The OP
> makes it seem like he's doing the developer a big favor by engaging in the
> reporting process--when the truth is that his 15 minute bug report
> generates hours of work for the developer--that the developer could have
> most likely lived his entire life without needing to do otherwise. There's
> an underlying sense of entitlement there that is really toxic to any
> process of collaboration.
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