Various Sound Backend - Why?

[Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor]

Hello,

This one is general Linux question. Up until Fedora 15, there was xine 
and then there was gstreamer (Which contains good,bad & ugly) . Then 
there was fluendo. Except xine, the later ones still exist.

I mean, they all are sound backend / codec, right? Then why having many 
of them?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 30.03.2012 06:27, schrieb Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor:
> Hello,
>
> This one is general Linux question. Up until Fedora 15, there was xine and then there was gstreamer (Which contains
> good,bad & ugly) . Then there was fluendo. Except xine, the later ones still exist.
>
> I mean, they all are sound backend / codec, right? Then why having many of them?

Linux, MacOS, Windows, FreeBSD and Solaris are all operating systems
why do we have many of them?

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/30/2012 04:15 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 30.03.2012 06:27, schrieb Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This one is general Linux question. Up until Fedora 15, there was xine and then there was gstreamer (Which contains
> > good,bad & ugly) . Then there was fluendo. Except xine, the later ones still exist.
> >
> > I mean, they all are sound backend / codec, right? Then why having many of them?
>
> Linux, MacOS, Windows, FreeBSD and Solaris are all operating systems
> why do we have many of them?

Oh, Oh....  I know, I know....  Pick me.....

So we can have a choice?   :-) :-)

[Frank Murphy]

On 30/03/12 05:27, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote:
> Hello,
> I mean, they all are sound backend / codec, right? Then why having many
> of them?

It's called choice.
Which is a part of freedom.
Choose what works best for you.
If you like none, or none work for you.
You have then the freedom to write a new concept
that suits your situation.