At Sun, 22 Feb 2004 12:42:31 +0900, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > Nice attitude. While this ethic is understandable it doesn't help > progressions very much. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ The progressions of what? My attitude may be *indirectly* detrimental to Linux Sampler (which I doubt, because Specimen is the first program above 500 lines I've ever written; I would just hinder those guys). It is _not_ detrimental to the Linux Audio Scene, and it is beneficial to Specimen. And I daresay that by devoting myself to Specimen I am improving the LAS, but perhaps I'm an egomaniac. If what I'm doing does hurt LinuxSampler (yeah, right...), I can't say I feel any remorse. If that makes me a jerk in your eyes, so be it. > Maybe now you've had a couple of days to think > rationally about it you have changed your mind anyway. Apart from Evil Laughter(TM), which I thought was funny, I couldn't see one thing irrational about my statement. The gist of it was "It makes more sense to improve a living project than to have maintainers of said project contribute to the creation of what is currently a castle in the sky." Asking me to pool my efforts with SimSam's author makes sense to me(until you account for the fact that I don't know QT and hate C++, hence Specimen), but I don't see why I should drop my project and work on LinuxSampler. And if you took offense to my intent to whore their code, remember that this is a two way street and they can just as easily (and I encourage it) whore my code. The absolute number one reason I started writing Specimen was because I couldn't find anything that did what I wanted already (and at the time I thought SimSam was dead, plus the aforementioned reasons for not working on that). Whatever produces the best tool for the job is fine by me. Naturally I want that to be my tool, and I obviously think it will or else I wouldn't be doing this, but it's not like my opinion of LinuxSampler is anything but my honest-to-dog pragmatic evaluation. And who knows, maybe I'm helping LinuxSampler more by being pessimistic than by contributing my incompetence? Perhaps Steve Harris, upon reading my prior message, launched into a raging ninja coding fury, adding feature upon feature to LinuxSampler (including a explode-competition's-head button), until it is poised, ready to strike and crush all who oppose it. [pb] P.S. Bwahahaha! P.P.S. Mark: I'm amazed that what I thought was merely an expression of a negative opinion is considered "going off." Puh-lease.
