17 Dec
2004
17 Dec
'04
10:11 a.m.
On Thu, 2004-16-12 at 22:54 -0600, vord wrote:
Please excuse my choice of words; but, Dave, it doesnt
make much sense
to say you disagree when you dont understand in the first place.
Providing Linux compatability is the issue here, and it boils down to
how badly you want it. Personally Im not willing to bend over in the
least ... thats not what this approach is about. It is about proving a
point to hardware manufacturers, like RME, who [to their own
disadvantage, mind you] ignore users of opensource operating systems.
They mistakenly believe there is no money to be made here ... we can
bitch about it or we can prove it. You've made your choice; now stand
aside.
So, you want to make companies support open-source operating systems by
turning those systems into proprietary operating systems? Well then
they wouldn't be supporting open-source operating systems would they?
If you want a proprietary unix-based OS for music work, go use Mac OSX.
It has all the "compatibility" you could want, and more (and far, far,
far more music applications than Linux). Then those of us who care
about the future of Linux don't have to watch it be slowly destroyed by
people like you trying to "help".
Seriously. I'm not trying to be mean, or critical, or whatever. If you
don't care about the freedom of it, why use Linux? Relatively speaking
it's a crap audio production OS. Go use OSX, (or even, ugh, Windows) -
it has what you want.
If you do have reasons for using Linux, they stem directly from the
open-source nature of it, whether you realize it now or not.
-DR-