Note that I am not for gig and against sf2 (or vice versa), I just see flaws in your logic... Am Mittwoch, 17. September 2008 schrieben Sie: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 02:44:39PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: > > If you want to be ideologically clear, you _have to_ use a free format. > > Both gig and sf2 where invented as proprietary formats. I think the only > > real free alternative is something like specimen... > Using the sf2 format is not a problem for me, it is documented and has > at least one free implementation. I don't claim that my point of view is > the best and the only one truth, of course you can use gig of other > format if you prefer, but I simply can't (neither want) to change my > mind, and I absolutely will never support the format until at least one > (completely) free implementation exists. <snip> You want to use sf2 for reasons of freedom? sf2 is not free as in defined-by-the-fsf. Probably the same as gig (and gig _has_ a free implementation, just use an old linuxsampler with plain gpl)... If you want a _really_ free format you _have_ to use specimen or something else which not only has free implementations (heck, even ms word has free implementations) but also an open format. Again, I am not saying that you should ditch sf2 and use gig for whatever reasons. I am just saying that your reasons of not doing so are no reasons in my view. And if your ideologic reasons are invalid, you might as well use the format that works best and has the features you need. :-) If it sounds right, its right. Has served me better in music making than "if it has the right[tm] license"... Have fun, Arnold PS: No need to CC me, I am subscribed ;-) -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a "rm -rf /". Or ask your administrator to do so...
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