2008/12/15 Jayson Joseph Chacko <[email protected]>: > I started using Free software right from the days it started being > used and as early as one could afford to buy a SIVA PC ! That was in > 1994!!
Good for you. > Even today we dont have a professional sound recording software that > can compete the efficiancy of Protools (On MAC) or Nuendo (On > Windows). This is year 2008!! We have had 14 years of free software > and still this has not happened. We have still got only self built OK. It would be great to share with us what you have done about it. Don't you think you are also included in that 'we'? > drivers for most of the professional audio cards. When free software > was passion for us in 1994 today it has just become a fashionable > word! I want my work done. I have waited for 14 years. When windows If that was all you were waiting for, you wasted 14 years dude. > came in 1994 it was said to be unstable and stupid for multimedia. Mac > ruled supreme. Today windows XP is stable and it has overtaken the mac > in many multimedia applications. > And what has become of mac? It now runs on intel platform!!! How is that relevant here? > Siftware is not an area for fanatism or blind faith. We have to It is about ethics, being able to help society. Did we go and burned Microsoft? or Did we kill forced them to release their code? We said this is not the right way to do software. We know a better way and we showed it to the world with our hardwork that it is indeed possible to do software in another way. We we the best real world folks who even compromised with others 'who were just interested in our software and not our ideas'. And you still call us fanatics? > acknowledge this fact. Free software is not the holy grail. Take the It is a way of ethical living. > good things it has to offer and acknowledge the good that propreitary > software has to offer. Use both as needed. Stop this hyprocrisy. When That is what Open Source does. If you are interested in only this, you might be excited to join this movement opensource.org We are only asking our community to be identified with our ideals. If you have a different opinion that is fine you can create your own community and talk about what you believe in. We will work together if our paths merge at points. > u use propreitary software have the spine to acknowledge it. It's like > going to a prostitute in the night with a mask on your face and then > giving a lecture in public against it during the day!!! We had to use Unix to build GNU, and still we have to use some non-free programs, but that does not deviate us from our goal - to have a completely free system. We are getting there. There is other side to it too. Why bother? "Who is without Sin be the first to throw a Stone". - Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
