On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 13:46 -0400, Egor Sanin wrote: > On 8/16/13, J. Liles <malnourite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As a though experiment: pretend you are a musician; > > if someone came to you asking you to rewrite your song to better suit their > > listening needs, how would you respond? There's a difference between art and tools released for the public. Art, excepted of the crap on the radio, should not suit to anything. A tool, even if it's for free as in beer, needs some quality. For example, if I build a power supply for somebody for free, this person can't expect that I fulfill all imaginable uses, e.g. for somebody who needs it for a Tattoo machine, I won't provide balanced voltage, but it could be used with the bikes battery and mains. What I fulfil is security, if she/he should hang ab the tattoo machine on the bikes handlebars no short will destroy anything, if the mains are used, nobody getting tattooed will get an electric shock. If I build a power supply just for my self, not for anybody else, I can ignore some security things, because I know what I do with this power supply. I even could use banana jacks instead of a Schuko jack to connect to the mains. > If some brash and shallow peruser of linux expressed the same opinions > as OP, I would likely also bash that person Why the double standards? Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
