15 Jan
2012
15 Jan
'12
2:20 p.m.
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
What if you're a user in the first place? A user
that likes to talk about
his favorite software? A user that likes to exchange experiences, to help
out others and having to find out that becomes more and more pointless? It
would most certainly help focusing on making music, that I'll admit, but
what if there's nobody to share it with or only a LAU mailinglist with
people using either Renoise, Bitwig, Mixbus or EnergyXT (<ironic mode />,
I'm exaggarating of course)?
Then it means that the free software experiment failed, and the
community wasn't able to produce contemporary software that resonates
with people's needs.
Linux audio is also a community with users and
there are quite a few of those users that mainly stick around because of
that community. It would be a shame if such users would abandon the
community.
The linux audio community currently lives its own life for the most
part, and doesn't make a terrible lot of PR for what it can do. Where
I live we call this "stewing in your own juice" (literal translation).
Albeit I do see e.g. more interesting dedicated blogs lately (Nick
Bailey's, for instance).
I'm not worried about the devs, not in the least.
Sometimes it seems there
are more developpers and applications out there than people who actually use
those applications and make music with it. That's the scary bit, the users.
Agreed :)
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org