[LAU] bitwig announcement

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:33 PM, James Morris wrote:

>> Seriously, it's really, really simple. People who want to make music,
>> make music. People who want to duscuss politics, discuss politics. Try
>> mixing it up, and you end up nowhere. It's all about focus.
>
> Well if you keep your head buried in the sand and only listen to happy
> sunshine music then I guess that statement makes sense. But personally
> I've heard thousands of songs which had political content/subject -
> and that's without even listening to the really edgy off-the-radar
> stuff.
>
> Ever heard of the phrase "the personal is the political"?

You are telling that to a Pink Floyd fan. Just so you know :)

OK, my statement was a deliberate exxageration, but my point is that
the time people spend discussing the political aspect of free software
could be spent on honing perfection in music and art.

You know, when GWW, creator of FontForge, submitted an application to
attend Libre Graphics Meeting back in 2007, his comment was "I will
not do talks, I write code. This is how I talk.".

>> Personally I don't care if people use just free software or mix free
>> software with non-free software in their workflows. I'm interested in
>> music. In other words, and that's something I say a lot, if you've
>> deliberately chosen free software, put it to such a good use that
>> noone would dream of questioning your choice. _Then_ you might
>> discover the whole free/non-free topic suddenly not all that worth
>> discussing.
>
> We should care if people use free software, but if you want to be an
> ignorant cuss then yes it's not worth discussing and you deserve
> vendor lock in and software which you have very little control over.

I expected a childish response. Thank you for not failing me :)

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org