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>No end users were benefited by the removal of ALSA support Don't be dishonest. Maintaining things requires time and effort. Time and effort are limited resou
by dralley 6y ago
>No end users were benefited by the removal of ALSA support
Don't be dishonest.
Maintaining things requires time and effort. Time and effort are limited resources.
* Nobody was maintaining ALSA support
* Nobody from the community stepped up and offered to maintain ALSA support to prevent it from being removed
* The ALSA backend poked a massive hole in their sandbox, which hurts users. Rewriting the ALSA backend to make it compatible with sandboxing would have required a lot of time and effort for little payoff. That hurts users by wasting developer time that could have been spent more productively.
* You cannot compare a Free Software project removing support for something that nobody volunteered to maintain to anti-semitic persecution, don't be ridiculous. If Gentoo (or whoever) wants to keep ALSA support then they can carry the patch to do so.
- dotancohen 6y ago> Maintaining things requires time and effort. Time and > effort are limited resources. Airlines' provisions of Kosher meals also require time and effort. The meals must be prepared and packaged and handled in a parallel effort to the regular meals, not to mention that they must be counted and accounted for. Yet, those 0.1% of the flying public which require Kosher meals are deemed worthy enough to continue providing support for them.