This is always a good forum to post about Lennart Poetering.

The timing here is, to me, extremely weird. On May 11, 2007, Adobe blogs an excuse for why audio in their Linux Flash player is broken: it's having to deal with multiple standards and layers for playing audio.

Welcome to the Jungle

The graphic is broken now, unfortunately.

The PulseAudio proposal is titled:

Cleaning up the Linux Desktop Audio Mess

Note how thematically similar the title is to Adobe's blog entry, with both being about lack of organization. It was presented at a conference that ran from June 27-30, 2007.

In other words. Adobe complains about "the jungle" (which IIRC no-one has complained about before) and then, one month later, Lennart Poetering proposes Pulseaudio as a solution to "the mess."

Coincidence?

"Coincidence?"

No. Adobe has shown they can be bought (follow the money).

Probably so. Pulseaudio had been around since at least 2004. And for someone at Adobe who was working in the audio stack since 99 not acknowledge Pulse at the time near to Poettering's big push shows that it was on no-one's radar yet. I think this shows simply Poettering's connections to the big distro people, and separately shows Adobe being Adobe.

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I guess we know who bought him out. I'm not having anything to do with anything he touches, nor Adobe of which he is merely an extension.