2 Jun
2018
2 Jun
'18
12:39 p.m.
On June 1, 2018 9:45:24 PM HST, David Kastrup <dak(a)gnu.org> wrote:
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Hmm, I think horrible licenses predate Microsoft. Anyone remember mainframe software
licenses from IBM, Data General and their ilk?
david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> writes:
I was just basing that on the kind of music that seems to get posted
here. Seems to mostly be synthesized instrumentals. Maybe it's just a
Pure popularity. The 40 most popular songs in USA at a particular point in time.
On 06/01/2018 03:47 AM, Christopher Arndt wrote:
> Am 01.06.2018 um 10:35 schrieb david:
>> Hmm, for me, "made on Linux" makes me expect anything but the
>> usual commercial music. I don't think we have many musicians on
the
list whose obsession is to make the same music
that's already on
the Pop 40 lists. ;)
I think that's a rather bold assumption. shortage of Pop 40 type singing voices?
What does the 40 in Pop 40 mean? To me, the reason for wanting to use Linux as the base
of the music
production process, are completely non-music related.
I use Linux and Linux applications for all of my creative processes photography, art, music, fiction, poetry. I like
the flexibility and
the freedom from budget constraints. I don't support software
monopolies like Microsoft and Adobe, and hate the Apple's "walled
garden" and "patent lawyers on speed dial" approach. I tolerate the
walled garden on my Android tablet because I like some of the free
software on it (Caustic, Ensemble Composer, ArtFlow, Simplemind
Free)
and there's no Linux tablet OS.
How about you?
Mental laziness. Same reason I am a vegetarian. Saves me from a
loads
of worries and uncomfortable decisions and anguish and bad taste in
mouth that I am better without. Of course it has helped that market
leader Microsoft has produced utter crap first with their operating
systems and then with their licenses. Intel has managed to survive in that quagmire by
creating the i386
32bit
architecture and from that fortress in the Microsoft swamp progressing
to kill the 68000 architecture, Alpha, SPARC because porting Windows
would be akin to transplanting Keith Richard's liver: you cannot
imagine
it surviving outside of its niche because it's magic already that it
survived inside of its niche.
68000 died because Motorola didn't keep up with Intel's performance. And
Apple's choice to run everything through their 68000 chip meant that an 8Mhz Amiga
(with graphic and sound coprocessors) could run rings around a 25Mhz Mac. (Used to use
both those systems.)
Intel's performance also eclipsed Alpha, eventually.
Don't know SPARC. I think they lost out because Intel chips were either as fast or
faster, and SPARC chips were expensive. Never met a SPARC workstation that ran Windows, or
was being used by someone who even wanted to run Windows. ;)
PowerPC is still around, right?
Can today's GPUs run Linux? That might threaten Intel at the performance end. Even my
cheap little tablet has 64 GPU cores.
My experience with 2 ARM-powered tablets is they're no performance threat.
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