On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:01 PM, James Morris wrote: > Developers should develop software, end of. In an imaginary perfect world where there is no pain and death :) > A lot of free software is developed on a voluntary basis, because the > developer wants to, not because they're paid. Exactly. There is no rule that works for everyone. > You have no right to tell these developers it is their job to go chasing > government contracts. I think you got it entirely wrong. I was appealing to people who want to make a change. It would be a bit silly to expect people who are happy with status quo to suddenly go crazy and change their lives, no? This is not about people having rights to tell other people anything. It's about whether we are happy with current state of affiars and how much we are ready to do to get closer to our dream. Novacut team got over 25K via Kickstarter recently. Would that cover cost of production of a good sample library? Or a port of some synths to LV2? Or finishing A3? Hell, yes. How did they do it? Appealing project + marketing. I'm all for getting all sorts of professionals involved, but here and now if we want to get anything done and we can't find people who are better at design, usability and marketing than us, then we can either keep moaning or bloody well study the stuff the best we can. Do you think usability architects focus on just usability? No, they study every-fucking-thing that is even remotely related to human beings and the world around us: art, architecture. physics etc. > Such activities are much better suited to people with big strong forceful > opinionated personalities such as yourself. Me? No, I'm as humble as a lamb :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
