Thu, 23 Feb 2012

alsaconf

Removing alsaconf was one of the very few rewarding moments of these ten years of taking care of ALSA in Debian.

Not everyone agreed back then, and we still get some retaliation. :)

Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:59:31 +0100
From: <CENSORED>
To: jordi@debian.org
Subject: sabotage!

the removing of alsaconf without working(!) alternatives  was (AND IS!)  an
act of sabotage against millions of debian/alsa - users who needs stable
productive systems

you and all those proponents of removing this still needed alsaconf - program
will have to take the responsibility in front of an (us-) court for damages in
millions of dollars - amounts (lost man hours) all over the world

only a short while and we will have enough sponsors and witnesses around the
globe (and a very specialised, international labouring bureau of advocates) to
go to the court for prosecution.


we will not tolerate such an betray ("stable"? - do you believe, we're
fools??!!) against broad sections of the population and against the spirit of
free software!

it will be intresting to investigate, in whoms interests you've done so and
who the beneficiaries are ...


L.B.
conductor, publicist, whistleblower

23:53 | [] | # | (comments: 18)

Lol!

L.B.
conductor, publicist, whistleblower, retarded

Posted by Fernando at Fri Feb 24 01:16:32 2012

Ok, that's either a brilliant parody of free-software's lunatic fringe, or someone with seriously messed up priorities. And I'm really not certain which one it is...

Posted by Simon at Fri Feb 24 01:27:56 2012

Someone didn't read the part that says THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY etc.

Posted by Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso at Fri Feb 24 01:54:15 2012

I'd be watching your back or the fuzz will be after ya.  :)

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/31/53/3153195922-1.jpg

Posted by Matthew Barnes at Fri Feb 24 02:23:34 2012

Well, I had two computers recently where I needed to tell alsa which sound card to use, so a config file, and thus tool to prepare one, is often still needed.

Posted by Jan Hudec at Fri Feb 24 07:36:43 2012

Uhm ? I still use alsaconf in Ubuntu. What was the reason for removing it ? Needless to mention the thousands of files polluted in a Linux Distro, so what was the deal to actually remove this one ? Something that is necessary in configuring hardware ?

Posted by Samson at Fri Feb 24 09:38:06 2012

Heh. It was only removed in experimental, and maybe some day in unstable, not in stable… shakes head

Posted by mirabilos at Fri Feb 24 14:34:52 2012

mirabilos, it was removed in squeeze, but not in lenny.

Posted by Jordi at Fri Feb 24 19:08:00 2012

"only a short while and we will have enough sponsors and witnesses around the
globe (and a very specialised, international labouring bureau of advocates) to
go to the court for prosecution."

I think that you should spend that money in more creative way. For example:
pay few developers to do alsaconf port to new distro version, and make your own repository with updated alsaconf.

Think about that in other way.
Make free and open software not war :]

Posted by Camelek at Fri Feb 24 20:14:06 2012

"only a short while and we will have enough sponsors and witnesses around the
globe (and a very specialised, international labouring bureau of advocates) to
go to the court for prosecution."

I think that you should spend that money in more creative way. For example:
pay few developers to do alsaconf port to new distro version, and make your own repository with updated alsaconf.

Think about that in other way.
Make free and open software not war :]

Posted by Camelek at Fri Feb 24 20:14:15 2012

"only a short while and we will have enough sponsors and witnesses around the
globe (and a very specialised, international labouring bureau of advocates) to
go to the court for prosecution."

I think that you should spend that money in more creative way. For example:
pay few developers to do alsaconf port to new distro version, and make your own repository with updated alsaconf.

Think about that in other way.
Make free and open software not war :]

Posted by Camelek at Fri Feb 24 20:14:17 2012

"only a short while and we will have enough sponsors and witnesses around the
globe (and a very specialised, international labouring bureau of advocates) to
go to the court for prosecution."

I think that you should spend that money in more creative way. For example:
pay few developers to do alsaconf port to new distro version, and make your own repository with updated alsaconf.

Think about that in other way.
Make free and open software not war :]

Posted by Camelek at Fri Feb 24 20:14:18 2012

"only a short while and we will have enough sponsors and witnesses around the
globe (and a very specialised, international labouring bureau of advocates) to
go to the court for prosecution."

I think that you should spend that money in more creative way. For example:
pay few developers to do alsaconf port to new distro version, and make your own repository with updated alsaconf.

Think about that in other way.
Make free and open software not war :]

Posted by Camelek at Fri Feb 24 20:14:20 2012

"only a short while and we will have enough sponsors and witnesses around the
globe (and a very specialised, international labouring bureau of advocates) to
go to the court for prosecution."

I think that you should spend that money in more creative way. For example:
pay few developers to do alsaconf port to new distro version, and make your own repository with updated alsaconf.

Think about that in other way.
Make free and open software not war :]

Posted by Camelek at Fri Feb 24 20:14:21 2012

"only a short while and we will have enough sponsors and witnesses around the
globe (and a very specialised, international labouring bureau of advocates) to
go to the court for prosecution."

I think that you should spend that money in more creative way. For example:
pay few developers to do alsaconf port to new distro version, and make your own repository with updated alsaconf.

Think about that in other way.
Make free and open software not war :]

Posted by Camelek at Fri Feb 24 20:14:22 2012

"only a short while and we will have enough sponsors and witnesses around the
globe (and a very specialised, international labouring bureau of advocates) to
go to the court for prosecution."

I think that you should spend that money in more creative way. For example:
pay few developers to do alsaconf port to new distro version, and make your own repository with updated alsaconf.

Think about that in other way.
Make free and open software not war :]

Posted by Camelek at Fri Feb 24 20:14:24 2012

"only a short while and we will have enough sponsors and witnesses around the
globe (and a very specialised, international labouring bureau of advocates) to
go to the court for prosecution."

I think that you should spend that money in more creative way. For example:
pay few developers to do alsaconf port to new distro version, and make your own repository with updated alsaconf.

Think about that in other way.
Make free and open software not war :]

Posted by Camelek at Fri Feb 24 20:14:25 2012

"only a short while and we will have enough sponsors and witnesses around the
globe (and a very specialised, international labouring bureau of advocates) to
go to the court for prosecution."

I think that you should spend that money in more creative way. For example:
pay few developers to do alsaconf port to new distro version, and make your own repository with updated alsaconf.

Think about that in other way.
Make free and open software not war :]

Posted by Camelek at Fri Feb 24 20:14:27 2012