Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [ANN] Linux Musicians Wiki

From: Dave Griffiths <dave@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed May 11 2005 - 12:40:09 EEST

> On Wed, 2005-11-05 at 01:10 +0200, Esben Stien wrote:
>> jmstone@email-addr-hidden writes:
>>
>> > I am not really sure where "Linux Musicians" would fit into the
>> > front page there.
>>
>> I'd vote for GNU Musicians; it's shorter and it's more correct, in my
>> opinion. Something like Free Software Musicians would also be nice.
>
> I think both "GNU" and "Linux" are stupid to use in this case (despite
> the IMO unfortunate name of this list)
>
> Free Software Musicians, or Open Source Musicians, whichever. That's
> the point, not which kernel you happen to be running this week.
>
> Someone who runs jack, seq24, specimen, sooperlooper (etc. etc.) on
> FreeBSD "belongs" a lot more than someone who (theoretically) ported
> Cubase and just runs that under Linux.

I agree to that sentiment - http://www.pawfal.org/openlab/ we opted for
people who use free software, rather than anything more draconian. People
who use PD on windows are welcome for instance.

dave
Received on Wed May 11 16:15:11 2005

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