Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: linuxaudio.org

I thought I'd provide a little dramatisation of what this whole debacle looks like to me: <Daniel> LAD_Dude_1: Hey dude, I've got this idea for a group to help linux audio developers and corporate interests get along better, what do you think? <LAD_Dude_1> Daniel: Sounds like a good idea. <Daniel> LAD_Dude_2: What do you think? <LAD_Dude_2> Daniel: Aye, sounds good. Going to need a web site and mailing list and whatnot tho. <Daniel> Aye, I'll register linuxaudio.org <Daniel> Mandrake (TM): You interested? <Mandrake (TM)> Daniel: Definately <Marek (overhearing)> Daniel: Hey! I was going to do that! You bastard!

<Marek> LAD_People: HEY! DANIEL'S STARTED A WHOLE LINUX AUDIO DEVELOPER'S CONSORTIUM WITHOUT CONSULTING ANY OF US!

<LAD_Dude_3> WTF?! <LAD_Dude_4> What a bastard! <LAD_Dude_5> How dare you! <Daniel> Hold on a sec, dudes, it doesn't exist yet. I haven't even written a web page! <LAD_Dude_4> What a bastard! <LAD_Dude_5> How dare you! To those shouting "bastard!", I say: chill, for the moment at least. I also provide below a mail I sent to Joern Nettingsmeier before christmas. While Daniel's and my ideas differ somewhat in the necessary approach; co-operation vs defense, our aim is the same: to help bring linux audio software out of bedrooms and into studios while maintaining the freedom of that software. It's worth noting that whether or not a party is a corporation or a tree hugging hippy (to epitomise the two sides of that coin) is irrelevant; the issue is whether or not they support free software, or the kind of proprietary software that stifles the communities that have developed around places like the linux-audio-dev list. I know <snip> plenty of corporations prepared to stand firm on the principles of software freedom.