Re: [Alsa-user] SB Live! 5.1 Digital - Master does not mix rear/center/lfe - kX?
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From: Dexter F. <Dex...@gm...> - 2005-10-20 00:43:10
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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:47:30 -0400 Lee Revell <rlr...@jo...> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 00:22 +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > I don't even have an SB digital, I just thougth I mention it in the highly > > unlikely case nobody knew and tries to reinvent the wheel. > > > > About that "we don't have the time and are not getting paid for it" - I knew > > that all the happy hippie talk I got when I started endorsing in Linux and > > open src like "you don't get paid for *writing* OSS but for *using* it" and > > the like was bullshit and that the community will be exploited sooner or > > later and start to complain. Nobody back then would listen. > > > > Don't get me wrong, I highly appreciate your work, but everybody should have > > had this comming. > > Are you really suggesting that it's exploitation to suggest that this > problem might get fixed faster if someone put up a bounty? You can't No, that's absolutely not what I meant, you got me wrong here, sorry: what I'm saying is that "coding for free and trying to make a living by using free software" was sooner or later to lead to the type of exploitation like: Novell drawing away coders for the enterprise product and making SuSE a 2nd class tinker toy throwing the community a bone. obviously they regard them as free beta testers. The idea of open src gets perverted here. Same goes for RedHat/Fedora. Others will follow. But it was absolutely clear this was going to happen right away when the Linux genie was out of the bottel but some folken decided not to see it. I noticed from other posts it's not hard to get your blood pressure up, so in plain text: this was not towards you, not in any way. I just doubt the open src idea will survive commercial... interests. Sooner or later lots of developers will ask themselves whether it's a good idea to give away thier work for free when they can make a living on it as well. Linux has gone from the college to real life. It's not a student fun project anymore. > seriously expect people to spend their free time implementing a feature > they don't personally need. > > I wasn't suggesting that YOU pay me to fix it. Many open source > projects have bounty systems and they seem to work well. Anyone who > wants this fixed should contact their distro about it. As I said, I don't even need anyone to fix that cause I don't have that card. And for the bounty: now we're at giving money to someone to do something - that's called employment. Hiring. It all comes down to: progress is driven by money. The give-some-take-some utopia won't last. Just observing. |