Thanks Ahmet. This prompts me to write as an appreciative user. It is so
much easier to write about what is irritating than what is pleasing, but
what is pleasing is worth as much ink.
I am solidly on the recipient end of the spectrum. I am a mechanical
engineer with as little knowledge of coding as I can get away with. So I
can't even say that I feel guilty for not contributing expertise, I have
none to offer.
But I do use Rosegarden in my work. It is an valuable tool for what I
do. I made as big a $$ contribution to the project as I have made to any
FOSS project and I still spent a fraction of what a commercial program
would have cost. I spent a year waffling back and forth between
Rosegarden and Cakewalk before figuring out how to do everything I
wanted on RG and giving up on Cakewalk. If RG had cost $500 I would
never have had that year to tinker with it before committing to it, the
30 day trial would have expired and I would be left needing to spend a
lot of money on a program I was not yet certain about. This is a side
issue to the whole OS debate (I use XFCE on Ubuntu Studio. It works well
and I am glad to sidestep the whole Unity/ Gnome3 debacle) but it does
speak to the advantages of working in the FOSS environment.
Thanks to everyone who works on the software I use. I may abandon
Ubuntu at some point but I will be sticking with Linux for good.
Jonathan Herz
www.herzmusicbox.com
On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 07:24 +0300, Ahmet Öztürk wrote:
I prefer to pay in real money
and not by time spent to make programs work.
This is your decision but do not forget that freedom comes at a price. It can
be paid by actively coding (whole apps or just patches), or by investing some
time for making things work, or many other ways. You may choose not to pay
this price or think that you cannot afford it. But please, oh please refrain
from blaming developers for it. Developers work to the best of their
abilities without usually being paid at all and when their efforts fall short
in some fronts against some major companies' products, they are the ones to
pay yet another price by answering endless unfair accusations of the
community.
Ahmet
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