Re: [LAD] Releasing source code is not enough, I think...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for the duplicate, John, pressed the wrong button ;D On 21.01.2014 14:11, John Rigg wrote: Interesting. I had a discussion on a related topic with Filipe on IRC just a few days ago: What kind of choices should a software make for the user? In our example it was the usability (inversely correlated to the number of actions required by the user (mouse clicks, etc.)) of e.g. a free connection patch canvas vs. e.g. a mixer strip which restricts the signal flow to be linear for a usecase of e.g. adding a plugin to a plugin host and getting sound out of it. My opinion is: It is very much OK for a software to make choices to streamline common usecases if it happens to be not at the expense of the freedom to accomplish the more complex task. In our example this would be a mixer strip abstraction over the free patch canvas, but where the user has the option to change to the free patch canvas if desired. I see it somewhat similarly here. Providing binaries for software does not restrict the user from downloading the source package and compiling the software itself. We're not discussing providing binaries ONLY, but providing binaries as convenience for a common usecase. Have fun, Flo