Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

[Randy Barlow]

On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 15:13 -0500, Dale wrote:
> I dealt with udev too.  I switched to something that doesn't force me to
> chose having /usr on / or having a init thingy.  Since I switched, I can
> have /usr on its own partition and not have a init thingy.  Having
> options worked very well.  Not having a option would not have ended as
> well for me and others.

Yeah, this is the great thing about Open Source!

> For me, I just didn't like the way udev was going so I, and others,
> complained a lot and when someone came up with a better plan, I switched
> as I'm sure others did too.  If people that use Gnome don't like
> pulseaudio, they should have a option to use something else.  If they
> don't have that option, then in my opinion it is perfectly acceptable
> for a person to say they don't like it.  If everyone just goes along and
> doesn't say anything, then people that can make a option won't know one
> is needed to begin with.

I think it's fine to not like something and to say so. However, there is
a line between respectfully requesting features, and complaining about
something that someone is giving you for free (hence my gift horse
reference). I don't intend this last sentence to read harshly, or
intended as a personal attack against anyone. I'm just sharing how the
mood of some posts on this thread feels to someone who is an Open Source
developer.

The word "force" is not appropriate to be used in the context of Open
Source software. We all have the freedom to choose any number of
alternatives to Gnome or udev (including already existing forks and
derivatives). Force more often involves men with guns (or Darth Vader).

The project that I work on does not "force" you to use MongoDB. However,
if you wish you make use of my project in the way it was intended to be
used without modifications, you will need to use MongoDB. It's a hard
dependency. Nobody is forcing you to use my project, and there are
alternatives you can choose from. You also have the freedom to git clone
us, and change it to use SQLite, or MariaDB, or PostgreSQL, or anything
else you like (however, if you use LDAP as a database, I know someone
who might hunt you down!) By the nature of us giving you the code with
an Open Source license (GPL), it's freedom for you, not force.

> I shortened the above but since you mentioned using windoze instead of
> Linux, that is not a option here.  I'll donate money/time or whatever I
> can to Linux but I will NOT pay for a OS that is even half as crappy as
> windoze.  I have never bought anything M$ and have no plans to ever do
> it either.  It just is not a option for me.  I have family/friends that
> use windoze and that is about all I can stand.  Actually, I switched my
> brother about a year ago.  I switched him to Kubuntu but it still beats
> the stuffins out of windoze.

I think you may be thinking of someone else. I don't recall having ever
mentioned The Evil OS®. I too have been using Linux exclusively for a
fairly long while :)

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Randy Barlow