Hi Ben, > This is bullshit.
This is a mailing list for rational project discussion. I will start by asking that you remain constructive. > How on earth do you, or whoever will be choosing, know what music I, > or any other DJ, "want to be exposed to"? I meant mostly just that as you said, integrating someone else's store means you don't get to pick what you show so much, as you mentioned in the Traktor example, it shows stuff you already know which isn't what you want. If we do it ourselves we can take feedback like that and change things. But I don't think this is as important as your general points below, so I'll move straight on to them. > It's not about promoting unheard artists, because by definition you > will only get paid by artists who are established enough to have been > signed, and probably by a fairly major label because indie labels > simply don't have money for this kind of thing. These are not necessarily huge amounts of money, we have a lot of traffic by open source standards but not compared to many more established advertising channels. Initially at least we will only be talking to indie labels. > I don't care how you dress it up, this is a money-making exercise, > pure and simple. What I'd like to know is why does mixxx need the > money that bad, and where will it go? How will you ensure that one / a > few developers aren't essentially making a buck out of the work of the > many other developers involved in mixxx over the years? This is the most important point and a good question, we should have discussed this earlier. Our long-term plan is to use the money to support Mixxx development, hopefully through hiring either a part-time or full-time developer but depending on how much revenue we can create. But I can't make you believe anything I or anyone else says. Of course there's always the risk we could go off and spend it all on chocolate. But I offer the following, which in my opinion are reasonable reasons to trust us: Albert, RJ and myself all strongly support this and we are most of the longest term contributors to Mixxx still involved in the project today. We all have a lot invested in Mixxx and have made long term commitments to the project over a long period, around 5 years in my case. We all think this is a great way to fund Mixxx development and at the same time actually add useful functionality for users. Perhaps I should add that if anyone who has contributed code to Mixxx is concerned about how their work is going to be used in the future they are welcome to ask questions on the list or contact me personally. Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
