> [post from Kendall Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> Am I the only person who thinks this is basically antithetical with
> the corporatization of free software? The persistent and
> propagandistic misuse of words like 'community' by corporations is
> especially perturbing and detrimental.
Ugh, nothing offends me more than those TV ads for Nickelodeon where
they have kids singing "I believe in Nick, Nick believes in me." As
if a TV channel is capable of giving, or worthy of receiving,
"belief".
I really do hope that this whole free software thing is not just a
drop in a bucket. We need people to understand _why_ linux is so
successful, and for that we need people to do PR for us, like ESR.
RMS is needed to, as a focal point for the radical end of the
spectrum, even if he does tend to antagonize more conservative and
timid people.
Licenses are important. The first time a major musician releases a
creative work under an open-source license, I want them to tell
Rolling Stone that it was a great experience and artistically
gratifying at the least; preferably even profitable and a career
boost. I don't want them to come back six months later saying the
whole thing was a bad idea and they got ripped off by some
corporation because the courts couldn't enforce the license. I want
all the kids with basement 4-track studios to hear about it and
think "now that's what I should do." I want to see the whole
economy of being a professional musician shift away from the current
madness where you either make a mint or go broke trying (or make a
mint AND go broke trying, as is too often the case). I don't know
what the alternative is, but it's hard to see how it could be much
worse.
................ paul winkler ..................
slinkP arts: music, sound, illustration, design, etc.
A member of ARMS -----> http://www.reacharms.com
or http://www.mp3.com/arms or http://www.amp3.net/arms
personal page ----> http://www.ulster.net/~abigoo
