[MPlayer-dev-eng] [patch] prefer ALSA over OSS

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:56:23PM -0400, Brett Goulder wrote:
> > > It's unlikely that anyone is able to achieve anything regarding the 
> > > Linux kernel with fighting for OSS today.
> > > 
> > > There are right times for achieving something, and sometimes the
> > > right times are in the past.
> > 
> > The right time to do the right thing is always now.
> > 
> > Moreover, your opinion as an ALSA supporter/pusher does not have much
> > validity in this conversation.
> > 
> 
> ...... Did you honestly just say that because he supports/likes ALSA, he
> cannot contribute to the conversation at hand?

His relevance to the question of whether now is an appropriate time to
achieve something for OSS is basically zilch due to the fact that he
has an anti-OSS agenda to begin with. Of course he's going to try to
tell us it's a bad time because he wants to push ALSA.

Of course he can argue on the technical merits and talk about why he
likes ALSA. But it's preposterous to think that he has any business
advising anti-ALSA people on their strategy due to a clear conflict of
interest.

Rich