On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 4:06 PM, James Morris wrote: >> Really? Well, *I* always thought that it was just another business model :) > > Not sure what you mean by that. Like I said before, free software has many appealing aspects to me. A business model that imposes strong business and human ethics is one of them. > I see you've removed my statement saying that these are only my > suspicions? Such a statement I hoped would suggest I was open to > seeing them dispelled, and/or I don't necessarily believe them to be > correct. I tend to strip bits of conversations to which I agree or think of them as of irrelevant ones. There a few things I dislike more than RMS, and lengthy uncut threads happen to be one of them. >> Being passionate as OK as long as you don't behave like a dick. >> Freedom and small projects have very little to do with that. > > That's very judgemental of you. No, that's very observational of me. Try spending half an hour in same room with him when he knows you work for a company that has a "Linux" in the name, but not a "GNU", see him acting like an annoying fourty-something years old bearded child who didn't get a candy, then we talk :) I'm not even mentioning his ever-lasting feuds with Linus. >> And no, I like small projects and support them whenever I can. Hell, I >> helped growing some of them into large projects. > > Oh yeah, which ones? Darktable would be one of the latest. Mid-size currently, but growing fast and wide, and was a one-man band just 1.5 years ago. Best thing on Linux we have instead of Adobe Lightroom today, with unique tools, OpenCL based rendering and whatnot. Anyway, back on topic. One thing that worries me about the initial proposal to contact some of the major musicians is that IMO it kinda (unintenionally) belittles folks like Louigi who can do impressive stuff with *just* free tools. The way I see it every community strives for independance. When CC Foundaiton was looking for a new lawyer, they started asking around in the community first. See what I mean? We are not self-contained uet, and the proposal in fact is to solve that by asking for help to someone who isn't likely to stick to the community. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
