Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 15:26, Marek Peteraj wrote: Most probably you will find out (when/if other developers care to speak out) that this view is shared by many, if not all, developers, and not just in the audio world. Great projects in the open source community usually happen when a motivated individual or group _needs_ something. It is not the needs of the world (usually), or "user demand", or the desire to fill or create a marketing niche, it is their need. They work on the project because it is fun. Because they want to learn. Sometimes they do it because they want to give back to the community. If they feel like it, they will consider suggestions as well, but not always. Their view of what is best may be completely different from yours, and from what today's "market" finds fashionable and cool. Perhaps you should start saving now? :-) I have to echo other comments in that I also like the freedom of the linux or - more generally - open source (audio) world, the non-hierarchical non-centralized nature of it, the chaos, the lack of hype, marketing techno-speak and half truths if not outright lies, and all that. You seem to consider all these attributes big failures. I don't agree. We don't _have_ to be big, take over the world and "sell" our "products"[*] like everyone else in the music software and hardware industry. Which does not mean all software and projects are perfect, of course. I can think of many that could use some improvement :-) -- Fernando [*] there are exceptions, of course, as in everything. Some developers seem to have the need to push their software and demostrate that it is better than everything else. To each his/her own.