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I'm not up on my open source community politics, but I'm intrigued by the motivations. Let's take it as a given that everything in this post is 100% correct. It
by CobrastanJorji 5y ago
I'm not up on my open source community politics, but I'm intrigued by the motivations. Let's take it as a given that everything in this post is 100% correct. It certainly sounds like a common enough occurrence. Those 3 antagonists are acting out of malice and greed.
What's the play here? What does one do once one has acquired control of a linux tool or a mailing list or a consortium? Is it just to have power over something? Or is that power useful to some further goal?
- ww520 5y agoFame, resume padding, and consulting gags, especially recruiters and companies looking at GitHub projects as some kind of metrics.
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- drmr 5y agoOr maybe there is just a varied group of enthusiastic geeks that just want to collaborate on common tooling like APIs, libraries, frameworks, packaging, and distribution. It may "seem" that there's some sort of "take-over", it's just that people are actually coordinating on these common goals of free software audio tools.
- rStar 5y agocare to share any of your reasons for optimism?
- drmr 5y agoBecause I use Linux Pro Audio tools in my studio and daily life and am involved with testing builds, helping with ports, generally messing around (, break stuff), and occasionally make a tune or two. I am very happy with the free and open tools I have at my disposal. Even with the numerous rough edges, duct-tape and hacks to keep some things together. This is Hacker News, right?
- rStar 5y agoit's hacker news so I expect some actual reasons not hand waving generalities that don't amount to a "hill of beans"
- techrat 5y ago>What's the play here? If Freenode is anything to go by... Greed, ego, self importance, the need for control... and cocaine.