Re: [linux-audio-user] Sound on Sound, and Home Recording Magazine

On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 08:50, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: That sort of isolates the linux community from a largish percentage of the audio community, no? ...That would mean platform wars and high school kids beating each other up in the hallways because someone dares to mention that Nautilus is better than explorer... and... there would be tons and tons of text spilt in netwide platform wars over the simple idea that "my editor's better than your editor" {granted it would be really really pleasant but it's not going to get any real cooperation going and... once again... linux will be left with a small percentage of the audio community, folk will develop prejudices and start to "HATE" poor defenseless software because of the label on its libraries, development will slow drastically because of the lack of halfway qualified users {bug report senders, beta testers, ideas, code snippets, the like...} and because of the fact that folk will be spending half of their time on-line wading through textual casualties and sidestepping wordy battles and folk will be ripping each other off in the "holy" name of competition and no-one will be playing nice and no one will really benefit aside from rabble rousers and petit tyrants and it will simply screw the whole thing up for those folk that really care about it at all.} -- Rick Taylor <ricktaylor(a)speakeasy.net> The Dispossessed