[LAD] LS licensing (was: LV2 " isn't well thought out ?" LV2 in the Reaper sequencer)

[pete shorthose]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:41:39 -0500
Dave Robillard <dave at drobilla.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 14:00 +0000, pete
> shorthose wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:25:31 -0500
> > Dave Robillard <dave at drobilla.net> wrote:
> > > Yours just coincidentally is shared by
> > > virtually nobody
> > 
> > did you just presume to speak for virtually
> > everybody?
> 
> I suppose it's also presumptuous to say that
> virtually everybody thinks the sky is blue?
> Duh. 

that's hardly contentious. it certainly isn't
in the context of this conversation. so no.

> > > and it just so happens that
> > > this arbitrary definiton matches exactly
> > > your software which you wish to call 'open
> > > source' for PR reasons.
> > 
> > virtually nobody cares what you think.
> > how's that?
> 
> Virtually nobody even knows who you are, let
> alone what you think. How's that?

i'd agree with that entirely. i'm not very active
on this list nor in the community in general.
it's even truer in the wider context.
so, pejorative implications aside, yeah, that's
also a fair statement to make. quite what it
has to do with the matter at hand, i'm not so
sure.

cheers,
pete.