15 Jan
2012
15 Jan
'12
2:43 p.m.
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:33 PM, James Morris wrote:
You are telling that to a Pink Floyd fan. Just so you know :)
OK, my statement was a deliberate exxageration, but my point is that
the time people spend discussing the political aspect of free software
could be spent on honing perfection in music and art.
You know, when GWW, creator of FontForge, submitted an application to
attend Libre Graphics Meeting back in 2007, his comment was "I will
not do talks, I write code. This is how I talk.".
I expected a childish response. Thank you for not failing me :)
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
Seriously,
it's really, really simple. People who want to make music,
make music. People who want to duscuss politics, discuss politics. Try
mixing it up, and you end up nowhere. It's all about focus.
Well if you keep your head buried in the sand and only listen to happy
sunshine music then I guess that statement makes sense. But personally
I've heard thousands of songs which had political content/subject -
and that's without even listening to the really edgy off-the-radar
stuff.
Ever heard of the phrase "the personal is the political"? Personally I
don't care if people use just free software or mix free
software with non-free software in their workflows. I'm interested in
music. In other words, and that's something I say a lot, if you've
deliberately chosen free software, put it to such a good use that
noone would dream of questioning your choice. _Then_ you might
discover the whole free/non-free topic suddenly not all that worth
discussing.
We should care if people use free software, but if you want to be an
ignorant cuss then yes it's not worth discussing and you deserve
vendor lock in and software which you have very little control over.