Re: Sound freezes

Alex Efros posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:03:19 +0300 as excerpted:

> Hi!
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> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 03:38:31PM +0000, Duncan wrote:
>> As for pulseaudio, I'd guess a lot of gentooers don't use it at all,
>> preferring direct alsa, etc.  I know I've never used pulse here.
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> Sure, but skype-4.2 not supported anymore while 4.3 doesn't work withou=
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> pulseaudio - so this shit infiltrate into our systems anyway. :(

Not a problem here.

In keeping with my sig I simply don't do servantware, and that's exactly=20
what skype is or someone could and likely would revert those commits, in=20
the form of distributed patches if upstream didn't cooperate.  But since=20
skype considers itself master over users and refuses to give them the=20
right to see and modify the code running on their own systems, there's=20
little that can be done, except to choose not to run code from people who=
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refuse to recognize my rights as a user, which is exactly what I do.

Of course you're free to do otherwise, to trade freedom for convenience=20
if you like, and it seems most people prefer short term convenience to=20
long term freedom, so what can I say or do?  What I CAN do as it's within=
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my power, and HAVE done, is draw a line concerning what runs on my own=20
system. =3D:^)

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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
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