> Guess what: your derived license would be incompatible with the GPL or any > OSI license. You don't understand what free software is.
Here you go again, yakking making conclusions on your own doctored "facts." I never implied occlusion of the source code nor did I ever suggest that I've worked out all the quirks out of the whole system. It is/was a mere proposal to instigate a discussion at this point, nothing more. > Are you stating that I'm elitist because I use command line tools? I never > agreed with gui users that believe their tools are easier and better for > ordinary people. These tools are sometimes so complicated and badly > designed that the only reasonable command to use is "quit". As much as > you think they should use a gui because you believe they can't use > anything else, I think ordinary people should use free command line tools > because they can. Text is not elitist, and it's still the easiest and > most powerful intellectual technology. First you make an implied conclusion that had no grounds, now you extrapolate upon that. You'd be a wonderful politician. This has nothing to do with command line tools. This has to do with the _attitude_ you give to outsiders when you talk about oss/linux issues... > Have you ever tried to reduce a bunch of images (let's say 10000) with > Photoshop? Now that you mention it, there are scripts you can run in Photoshop, predetermined operations on a file, or sets of files. How do you think they do post-production of movie clips (i.e. in a film-gimp fashion)? But that is beside the point. Your whole argument stems from your own implication and hence it's not worth discussing. > I don't care about Linux. So what in the world are you doing on a _linux_ audio dev list? > The free software movement is not purist Perhaps in its implementation, but in theory... (My advice: do not tell this to Richard Stallman) > Hopefully, at some point, most of the computing chain will be > free, including the hardware. And who will fund such a development? How do you think the Linux kernel is being developed so fast? If we wait for us geeks to come up with such a machine, at this pace I'll be long dead before that happens, so meanwhile I am trying to cook-up the second best thing that might just happen within my lifetime. Nonetheless, for what it's worth I share your enthusiasm, otherwise I would not be here. ---- So, in short, yes, I am interested in seeing larger adoption of Linux. It's on my agenda because I believe. And I would love to see its greater deployment in the academic circles since this is what my domain/profession is. The reason for this discussion is because I am trying to come up with a way to strengthen the case for Linux in academic audio studios. As it stands right now, for a good number of musicians/studios out there the Linux has less and less of advantages over its competitors (obviously in part because they fail to understand its greatest strength -- its freedom), and a steep learning curve working against it. Cheers, Ico
