[LAU] Is there a LAU music directory?

jonetsu jonetsu at teksavvy.com
Sat Jun 2 00:27:17 CEST 2018


On Fri, 01 Jun 2018 21:36:52 +0200
David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> wrote:

> Considering how hard the task of finding a computer without
> "proprietary blobs" 

This is why is used 'basically', quoted below.  I thought about it and
decided I did not want to go the lawyer way, with clauses and
disclaimers and all that.

> > Then, people might ask, why make it a point ?  People are not saying
> > "made with Windows" after all.  It is then that what makes Linux
> > different comes through and it is why the point is made.  One of
> > those differences is that Linux is an Open and free operating
> > system with no hidden software parts basically.  It is not a
> > proprietary OS owned by a company.  That point only makes a large
> > difference as a statement, as a choice, perhaps even as a political
> > statement.  

> So if I use, say, a Solton MS-40 (a device released in 1994 or so, so
> not actually predating Linux as such but at least its usefulness for
> such a device) for my arranger or even Midi expander tasks but use
> Linux for my DAW purposes, the music is not Linux-made.  Even when I
> don't use the arranger but just the Midi expander?

> Using an acoustic accordion allows me to stay "Linux-made" while
> connecting the same accordion with a Midi interface (that has its own
> firmware in EPROM, no less) to my Linux computer then precludes
> "Linux-made"?
 
> And if I only use acoustic instruments but record using a DAW on
> Linux, the result is "Linux-made" as long as I don't use a soundcard
> with its own firmware?

OK ok ok.  I have an idea.  Let's make music instead.  How does it
sound ? :)

Cheers.


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