Re: [LAU] bitwig announcement

From: James Morris <jwm.art.net@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Jan 15 2012 - 16:33:25 EET

Hi,

On 15 January 2012 14:07, Alexandre Prokoudine
<alexandre.prokoudine@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> 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.

James.
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