[LAU] bitwig announcement

[hermann]

Am Montag, den 16.01.2012, 13:25 +0100 schrieb Jörn Nettingsmeier:
> On 01/15/2012 02:29 PM, hermann wrote:
> 
> > Not so long ago, for most people linux was == open source, that gone
> > lost more and more. You didn't need to be a geek to prefer the use of
> > open source tools, that could also lead by sozial or maybe political
> > skills.
> > Today, it becomes harder and harder to found a place were you could talk
> > with people over open source tools. More and more Close Source swap into
> > the Linux world. For me, for example that makes linux more to a 2.
> > windows.
> > The advance of open source is that knowledge gone be a community good.
> > Okay, for a Musician witch just wone use the best tools to make Music,
> > that didn't have any impact, but also musicians could be driven by there
> > political or social state, and for those the place witch could be called
> > "home" is slipped away.
> 
> this argument works both ways: for professional users, all that counts 
> is the availability of the tools required for a particular job. if i can 
> get a closed-source tool (rather than none at all), that enables me to 
> _stick_ with linux and not have to run a brown-paper-bag headless 
> windows box in my basement that needlessly heats up my wine storage and 
> irritates my router.
> 
> i'm pretty sure there is nothing to fear from choice, ever.
> 
> it's interesting to observe the (minor) frictions that arise when people 
> who are coming from a proprietary operating system (who have certain 
> user experience expectations and some degree of ignorance of how the 
> open source community works) suddenly adopt open-source tools. i 
> remember the tricks paul used to pretty much drive ardour-osx users into 
> IRC at gunpoint - without these tricks, mac users tended to double-click 
> on an installer, run into a problem, walk away complaining and were 
> never seen again... this is probably also the reason why there's isn't a 
> windows version of ardour (yet) - you got to backport the software, but 
> you also got to forward-port user attitude, which can be a lot less 
> tractable.
> 
> in the bitwig case, the problem is much simpler: a proprietary tool 
> enters an open-source ecosystem. it removes one more hurdle for people 
> with a certain workflow to adopt (or stay with) linux.
> those who don't like it don't use it. the only friction point arises 
> when those who don't like it tell others why they shouldn't be using it.
> _______________________________________________

I didn't tell others what they have to do or not, I just say that I
didn't like and use Close Source, and why I choose so. 

I guess that is free to me also.