Re: [LAU] Look ma, I'm in the paper :)

On Sun, 30 Oct 2016 21:32:14 +0000 Yassin Philip <philcm(a)gnu.org> wrote: Excerpt: "Why do you feel open source is important, and what for you is the most important aspect of Linux audio? Because I just don't trust proprietary code. Call me paranoid, but in reality I'm just lazy :) I like to know that somebody, somewhere, and preferably me, has read the code that I execute. But this is only one reason. I find the proprietary world a PITA of dongles, cracks download sites and talkative installers. I prefer to talk to the coding team through a bugtracker than to "contact technical services". I want to re-install a studio machine in one command that will pull everything I need ; I want to spend more time doing just music. It's basic hygiene. I use FLOSS, I write FLOSS code, and that's it." Like dental floss. Basic. A bit of dissension, though - The arguments for the use are not very strong, IMHO. Nobody reads the code of Ardour before using it. Did you ? How much time not making music ? And if you don't agree with a function, then stop using Ardour ? Of course not. So if the goal is to spend more time doing music, then reading the code to all the software is out of the question. Proprietary world is not a world of dongles. What about trust ? I trust very much the stability and performance of all u-he products. I trust the dedication of the people developing Bitwig. I trust the people making Renoise and Redux, two very stable and creative products. I trust Harrison when they add to Ardour. So on so forth. But then, maybe this LibreMusicProduction outlet is one in which a bit of propaganda is simply a matter of fact, and the mention of proprietary products running on Linux is only found in the commentaries. Cheers.