Re: [LAU] An appeal to famous artists?

On Tuesday 02 August 2011 15:47, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: And that demonstrates the problem with trying to recruit bigger-name artists to use free software... in the case of Creative Commons, it made the news not because it was a liberal license, but because "Eccentric rock star who was popular 10 years ago (remember, this was before he became an Oscar-winning composer) releases his latest album for free! Film at 11!" The people who cared that they were legally allowed to non-commercially remix and redistribute his material were going to do so whether it was legal or not. How would people even hear about, say, Radiohead making their album with Ardour? Would their engineer post to a forum or something? Would the band even be aware of it themselves? As others have mentioned, it's not going to appear in most of the industry or enthusiast rags because it directly threatens their bottom lines, it's too esoteric for the tech news sites for the most part, except the Linux-focused ones, and it isn't usually the kind of thing that comes up when you're talking to a Vanity Fair reporter about your effort to save the African marmot while sipping a wheatgrass martini. Personally, I'm looking forward to an onslaught of Android pro audio free software, to which I hope to contribute, since I get musically inspired when I'm not at my laptop a lot more than when I am. Rob