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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
