[linux-audio-user] search: free vst plugins

FRitz fritz at fritzmetal.de
Wed Dec 7 13:58:57 EST 2005


Soenke Hahn wrote:
> Florian Schmidt schrieb:
>
>> On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:19:07 +0100
>> FRitz <fritz at fritzmetal.de> wrote:
>>
>>  
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>>> Esben Stien wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>     
>>>>> Could be handy
>>>>>          
>>>> Be adviced that these are not free software plugins in the sense of
>>>> freedom. They are merely proprietary gratis software.
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>     
>>> What's the difference in real life?
>>>   
>>
>> You want to change it -> you can't with gratis
>> proprietary software, but you can with free software.  
>>
> In addition to that: with real free software you can be quite sure, 
> the program doesn't do things, you don't want it to.
> ...no, I'm wrong, there are lots of things going on in my system, that 
> I don't want to happen. But at least they were initially intended to 
> help me to do the things i wanna do. Hmm, maybe my english is a bit 
> crappy...
> Just consider spyware in a gratis downloadable game. You want to play 
> the game, the company wants information about you. Two interests, both 
> served by the same software. (Put like this, it sounds really great :))
>
> Sönke
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>

I never had spyware in any VSTplugin I ever downloaded. May it stay like 
this! ;-)


Best wishes, FRitz



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