On Thu, July 26, 2012 11:55 pm, Paul Davis wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Patrick Shirkey > <pshirkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> wrote: > >> >> The problem is that we have a select group/monopoly attempting to tell >> us >> what the rules are and forcing them on us at every opportunity. A >> curious >> side process is this same group often break their own rules to maintain >> their monopoly over telling us what the rules are. >> > > i'm not discussing politics or sociology (certainly not on this ML). in > the > musical/cultural realm, this claim is really hard to justify. what did it > take the minimalists or the punks or even the prog rockers to reject > twelve > tone atonal serialism, prog rock and 3 chord C-major common time party > music? almost nothing except a committment to their own visions and a lot > of hard work. and even wierder? the establishment barely even fought back. > > and this is even more true when its no longer necessary to convince a > record label or TV network or radio station manager that you're the > shiznit. > Embace, extend, extinguish... Did it to Moog, Fender, countless other small but successful music businesses have been absorbed and spat out the other side. Audioflinger is balanced on the edge. They need to decide if they want to enable or disable. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
