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Re: open source stompbox--looper?
The spirit of open source?
Here's a guy that has released a piece of work and you're complaining
that he didn't do all of the work himself.
What a load of shit.
At 2008.08.15 10:22 AM, Dennis Moser wrote:
>Sean,
>
>You're absolutely correct: "open source" doesn't mean
>"cross-platform" ... but the most successful open-source projects
>understood that GETTING that source in front of as many sets of
>eyeballs as possible also meant making it operable under as many
>different toolkits on as many different platforms as possible.
>
>Restricting it to a SINGLE proprietary OS by the toolkit needed to
>work on it is not exactly embracing the spirit of open source, even
>if there are more people running Windows.
>
>But this is getting way off topic ...
>
>Dennis
>
>On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Sean Echevarria
><<mailto:sean.loop@creepingfog.com>sean.loop@creepingfog.com> wrote:
>Open source doesn't mean cross-platform...
>
>
>
>At 2008.08.15 07:31 AM, Dennis Moser wrote:
>
>But to call it "open source" is a little disingenuous ... no Linux
>or Mac support for the development tools?