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On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:03 PM, James Morris wrote:
> How is it childish to say you should care about software freedom?

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> It seems justifiable to judge someone as ignorant when that person

> claims to not care about software freedom while using free software.

> Otherwise if you do actually care, you're simply being antagonistic -

> ie a troll - and I'm an idiot for feeding you.

My dear James,
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to live a simple black &

white life, where there's only strictly good and strictly evil, where

software can be either proprietary of free, and where people you

disagree with are either ignorant cusses or trolls. Thank you for a

fantastic insight and an amazing experience :)
Now that you've hopefully done getting personal on people, do you

think you could find yourself stretching your attention towards the

topic? Which is, when it comes right down to it, fear.
The whole issue arises from fear that we as community have failed to

produce competitive software, otherwise nobody would bother even

checking out Bitwig, let alone discussing it.
The question is what we are going to do about this fear.
What would _you_ do, James? Would you suppress it with political

statements or would you try to contribute and make more usable

software? Or produce really well composed, recorded, mixed and

mastered music? Write impressive tutorials maybe? Anything to make

just about everyone say "Hey, this free software thing's worth

checking out!"?
Alexandre Prokoudine

http://libregraphicsworld.org

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