On Fri, 01 Jun 2018 21:36:52 +0200 David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Considering how hard the task of finding a computer without > "proprietary blobs" This is why is used 'basically', quoted below. I thought about it and decided I did not want to go the lawyer way, with clauses and disclaimers and all that. > > Then, people might ask, why make it a point ? People are not saying > > "made with Windows" after all. It is then that what makes Linux > > different comes through and it is why the point is made. One of > > those differences is that Linux is an Open and free operating > > system with no hidden software parts basically. It is not a > > proprietary OS owned by a company. That point only makes a large > > difference as a statement, as a choice, perhaps even as a political > > statement. > So if I use, say, a Solton MS-40 (a device released in 1994 or so, so > not actually predating Linux as such but at least its usefulness for > such a device) for my arranger or even Midi expander tasks but use > Linux for my DAW purposes, the music is not Linux-made. Even when I > don't use the arranger but just the Midi expander? > Using an acoustic accordion allows me to stay "Linux-made" while > connecting the same accordion with a Midi interface (that has its own > firmware in EPROM, no less) to my Linux computer then precludes > "Linux-made"? > And if I only use acoustic instruments but record using a DAW on > Linux, the result is "Linux-made" as long as I don't use a soundcard > with its own firmware? OK ok ok. I have an idea. Let's make music instead. How does it sound ? :) Cheers. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
