23 Jun
2003
23 Jun
'03
1:38 a.m.
Guess what: your derived license would be incompatible
with the GPL or
any
OSI license. You don't understand what free
software is.
Here you go again, yakking making conclusions on your own doctored
"facts."
I never implied occlusion of the source code nor did I ever suggest that
I've worked out all the quirks out of the whole system. It is/was a mere
proposal to instigate a discussion at this point, nothing more.
Are you stating that I'm elitist because I use
command line tools? I
never
agreed with gui users that believe their tools are
easier and better
for
ordinary people. These tools are sometimes so
complicated and badly
designed that the only reasonable command to use is "quit". As much as
you think they should use a gui because you believe they can't use
anything else, I think ordinary people should use free command line
tools
because they can. Text is not elitist, and it's
still the easiest and
most powerful intellectual technology.
First you make an implied conclusion that had no grounds, now you
extrapolate upon that. You'd be a wonderful politician.
This has nothing to do with command line tools. This has to do with the
_attitude_ you give to outsiders when you talk about oss/linux issues...
Have you ever tried to reduce a bunch of images
(let's say 10000) with
Photoshop?
Now that you mention it, there are scripts you can run in Photoshop,
predetermined operations on a file, or sets of files. How do you think
they do post-production of movie clips (i.e. in a film-gimp fashion)?
But that is beside the point. Your whole argument stems from your own
implication and hence it's not worth discussing.
I don't care about Linux.
So what in the world are you doing on a _linux_ audio dev list?
The free software movement is not purist
Perhaps in its implementation, but in theory... (My advice: do not tell
this to Richard Stallman)
Hopefully, at some point, most of the computing chain
will be
free, including the hardware.
And who will fund such a development? How do you think the Linux kernel
is being developed so fast? If we wait for us geeks to come up with such
a machine, at this pace I'll be long dead before that happens, so
meanwhile I am trying to cook-up the second best thing that might just
happen within my lifetime. Nonetheless, for what it's worth I share your
enthusiasm, otherwise I would not be here.
----
So, in short, yes, I am interested in seeing larger adoption of Linux.
It's on my agenda because I believe. And I would love to see its greater
deployment in the academic circles since this is what my
domain/profession is. The reason for this discussion is because I am
trying to come up with a way to strengthen the case for Linux in
academic audio studios. As it stands right now, for a good number of
musicians/studios out there the Linux has less and less of advantages
over its competitors (obviously in part because they fail to understand
its greatest strength -- its freedom), and a steep learning curve
working against it.
Cheers,
Ico