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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

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> 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 (,

> 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

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> 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

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> 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

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