[Julien Claassen] I think the small applications with narrow focus you find used on the commandline are simply a good match for the Linux audio ecosystem with its many one-man part-time projects. On the other hand there's a strong desire among users and developers for applications with a rich feature set and often also a pretty graphical interface. It can of course be done, even by just one man, but it takes a lot of time, vast depth and breadth of skill and dedication and a stable list of features for both the project itself and the libraries involved to make such applications *and polish them to professional standards*. I watch this ambition not without sympathy, but also not without occasionally speculating what the Linux audio landscape might look like with less lofty and more UNIX-shaped goals. Tim