16 Jan
2011
16 Jan
'11
6:30 a.m.
On 1/16/11, Ken Restivo wrote:
I can't stand the whole idea of closed-source VSTs and plugins and synths.
I do genuinely believe that Autostatic was referring to open sourced VSTs.
Don't forget native Linux VST's, their number
is steadily growing also.
I think I have about 60 to 70 of those sitting on my harddrive.
Unfortunately there are very few hosts.
The last sentence quite nails it :) Yeah, I'm one of THOSE guys.
Seriously, I'm using linux becuase of the freedom, the open source, and the
political aspect of it. That's why I run it. I wouldn't bother with it
otherwise.
I can't possibly imagine political aspect of writing music. Oh wait,
Peter Gabriel did it with "Biko". Right :)
If I wanted to use proprietary, closed-source
software, why would I even try
to get it running on Linux at all?
Taking this a bit father: if convenience, "user experience", time,
availability, commercial support, etc were REALLY important, why wouldn't I
just get a MacBook Pro like everyone else has, and run that?
A tad too far, maybe? :)
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org