On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Folderol <folderol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't think it's users of a specific OS, more of a case of extremely selfish > people who think the world owes them ... everything. They just don't seem to > connect with the idea of doing something for fun but making it available to > others with no specific commitment. > > How sad it must be to have a mindset where your first thought is 'what do I get > for it' when doing anything. in defense of CDM commenters, i don't think that this is the mindset at all, really. i think its more like "look, 98.5% of all possible users of this stuff do not run linux, so why would you release a cool creative tool that only runs on a platform that almost nobody uses?" *if* the percentages are roughly correct (and they likely are), then i think its a reasonable question to ask. however, the questioner needs to be able to deal with the answer being something along the lines of "because i wanted to" or "because i didn't write it for all those other people" or even "because i wanted other people who use the same platform as me to have more cool tools" or perhaps even "because i think its a better platform". i think its fine to ask the question, but people have to accept the answer too. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
