22 Oct
2002
22 Oct
'02
9 a.m.
On 10/22/2002 - 04:46:47, Richard Bown said:
On Monday 21 October 2002 20:21, Patrick Shirkey
wrote:
Too late :)
So we are not wasting our time to debate this. There is a real problem
that the professional side of this community is not really taking into
account.
I was sceptical that the Agnula team would be doing massive promotional
campaigns.
Peter you said that if we intend to make money out of Linux Audio we
*should* be paying for it. Well doesn't that alsao apply to studios and
professionals who intend solely to use the finished products to make money?
Patrick.
--
But am I just wasting my breath because the
Agnula crew are going to
do all the work for us?
Oh well _now_ you come on to my pet subject.
Anyone from the Agnula project have a position on
this?
A while ago I got involved in a flamespat with the head honcho of AGNULA
when I suggested that they should improve their communication with the
rest of the LAD community and specifically with the development teams.
I think we'd pretty much all like to know what's happening with AGNULA
(apart from the minutes of their meetings) and naively I saw it as
their job to tell us and be nice to us.
While they do have selective communication with those that they consider
to be key people I think my fundamental mistake was to actually think
of AGNULA as an organisation. While it appears to be an organisation
it's really just a tech project - it's run by geeks and it will aim to
deliver some packaged apps and code in the time allowed. Once it's
packaged it'll ship and LAD type projects will get exposure to the rest
of the world through their distro. AFAICT that's the deal. While
that's not a bad deal of course I think AGNULA should have more of a
personality and a PR role with and in the LAD community. I've said in
the past that I think it'd benefit "them" and "us".
But hey. I'm not going to get on my hobby horse again over that one.
No chance. No sir.