22 Jan
2008
22 Jan
'08
8:50 a.m.
t_w_(a)freenet.de wrote:
Dave Phillips wrote:
We do have to keep in mind that we are talking about a LV2 'standard'
here. A standard is generally conceived to make different (competing)
products compatible with each other. Drafting a standard always requires
competitors to work together to find a common middle ground.
The question we should ask ourselves is whether LV2 should be a real
standard, or some sort of 'open-source only' standard.
If it is supposed to be a real standard, the fact that Reaper is not
open source doesn't matter.
Greets,
Pieter
So responding with sarcasm, "We'll do it
my way or not at all"
conditions, and a confrontive attitude qualifies as "the spirit of
collaboration" ? Geez, you guys are really winning me over.
It's the good right of Dave and Lars to not care or even outright
reject closed software. They could have said it more diplomatic
terms ... but now you make a drama of it.
It could even be that both never claimed to be open minded ;)
Dave puts an incredibly amount of effort into several open projects.
Why would he go out of his way to help adding capabilities to
closed software that kinda competes with what he works on?
Producers of closed software gotta love competition and doing it
all by themselves.