Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

On Wed, February 6, 2013 7:12 am, Paul Davis wrote: One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... We already have market competition. AVID, Apple, Microsoft, AMD, Nokia and even Google actively work against anything the open source multimedia developers are throwing at them. Intel is on the fence. They have a large Linux department but don't make many contributions round here. We don't here from ARM much either but TI, Qualcomm do support their employees supporting this community. The strange thing is how many movie studios use our tools but are not actively contributing to the community. There is a pickup in radio stations though. However the bulk of the work that is done is privately funded or research projects. What sucks about Linux Audio is the guys who print as much money as they want don't like open source multimedia. They see it as an existential threat and do everything they can to cripple wider adoption of the tools, products and services that open source multimedia folks provide. Given that the Linux Audio Community is not in a position to fight on the same level we are always the underdog. If I had the ability to print billions of dollars and rack up trillions of dollars of debt with my Hereditary Bankster Elite Buddies things would be very different for Open Source Multimedia. If we didn't have to compete with Government organisations backed by unlimited funds to make a sale of our products we would be very busy. In the meantime I have to feed my kids and pay the rent like every other Joe who is not a member of the 1% or working for them. I face the choice of starving to death to make a rental payment so I can have a place to work 90 hours a week or being forced out of business if I can't pay my tax on time. Whereas the competition are able to borrow billions from their mates, create unlimited reserves of cash and never ever have to pay it back. That really sucks! Even companies that are generating billions of dollars thanks to open source multimedia solutions like the ALSA project don't even try to give anything back to the wider community. Where are the contributions from the likes of Samsung and Google to Linux Audio and multimedia solutions? Let alone all the smaller companies that are using our software for their business products and refuse to chip in occasionally with some useful contributions.There are many corporations that are quite happy to take the work that has been done and profit from it but feel absolutely no motivation to give anything back. That sucks! -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd