linuxaudio.org

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 15:23 +0100, Michael Bohle wrote:

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> I see cleary, there are the an old linuxaudio community,  like represented

> with this list. The old community believes that there is the evil closed

> source and that open source heal all wounds and make an ideologic overhead

> about this. 

pointless, not evil. there are also licencing issues. you ignore that.

the idea of bringing vst to linux is flawed like the idea of bringing

democracy to the middle east, but you will notice that short enough.
> The new community, often active musicians, have no problems to get in touch

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> with "the evil" - The new community is pragmaticly use this what works for

> the musicans. And they want Linux, not because of the FSF, more because this

> can be an alternative for Windows.

great! maybe your naive approach to these issues will actually rule out

all these well-thought arguments!
you seem to forget why linux exists in the first place. if we have to

give up the values that created this operating system in order to get

where we want, it isn't worth it. you are helping to create a second

windows. again, i did not move away from windows to have that golden

cage follow me! i hate debugging black boxes! i hate working with

binaries built from code i am not allowed to read or modify! i hate bug

reports from users using closed source plugins within my application (so

does the kernel team, check their bugzilla 'enter new bug' page for a

smile) this is a PRAGMATICAL question, not a question of good and evil,

damn it!
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