On Apr 11, 2008, at 19:08 , Gunhild Andersen wrote: > I'm surprised because I've always found > it so hard to understand why people even consider returning to > proprietary software once they've tasted the free kind.
I've discovered that, free or not, in the end I still prefer working software :-). So do most end users, it seems. > (To me that > looks kind of like finally giving up cigarettes and then starting > again...I just don't get it.) And I'm sad, because I realize that this > is not a happy and fruitful course of events for my favourite piece of > music creation software. Bah, don't worry. I haven't done anything for RG in ages, you won't see the difference, and it's likely that someone will step up. > There are many many things I love about Rosegarden, but the one thing > that is really the most important one to me about it is that it is > free > software. I've long ago stopped thinking that "you have the source, you can fix it" was a valid answer to "it doesn't work". > I realize that Guillaume's reasons for making this choice are not of > the > ideological kind, which is probably also true for a lot of GNU/Linux > users in the first place. But I still can't help but wonder: have the > negative effects of the fed up-ness with the percieved imperfections > of > the GNU/Linux platform at all been weighed against the negative > effects > that forking away into proprietaryland will have for the Rosegarden > project as a whole? OS X has a large enough free software community that it's hard to think of it as "proprietary land". I don't think there will be any negative impact compared to the current situation (i.e. me having given up on Linux). > regrettable loss. Are the social and ethical implications of free > versus > proprietary software of no interest at all to the forming of this > decision? No, in that they are precluded by the consideration of the usefulness of the program. I.e. I stand a much better chance at providing a useful, free sequencer to others on OS X than on Linux. -- Guillaume http://telegraph-road.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
