On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 21:57, Paul Davis wrote: > >In YOUR opinion. In MY opinion, proprietary software is "not good for > >Linux in general". Our opinions differ, deal with it. > > > >At no point did I say you shouldn't have the right to release your > >software under whatever license you want. I said I personally consider > >it "garbage", and I do. > > You are welcome to your opinion, and you are free to voice it here, > there and everywhere. But with freedom comes ... you guessed it, > responsibility. Responsibility to respect others and others' work.
*sigh* alright.... To clarify (and I realize I obviously miscommunicated significantly), I didn't mean to imply RTSynth is garbage quality software. I meant to say: - Proprietary software is, in general garbage, to me. - Thus, I find it annoying to accidentally download what is completely useless to me. (So a list of free software would be good, etc. etc. on topic) - RTSynth and Digeridoo are examples of software where this situation occurred. On a quality-of-software basis, quite the opposite is true. The reason that situation is so annoying to me is I was genuinely interested in the software (ie I really wanted to see just how a digeridoo was simulated, and was excited at the possibilities, musically and code-wise). If I thought the software itself was "garbage", I wouldn't care about my inability to use/see it. So the fact that I'm disappointed in the fact it's proprietary if anything implies that I think the software is somewhat cool. I sincerely didn't even consider this "your software = crap" interpretation. I don't make it a habit of anonymously flaming people's projects in public forums. So please, end of thread. I apologize for my lack of proofreading (but not my views) -Dave ("just another zealot", right?) P.S. Despite my utmost respect for you Paul, I still wouldn't really give a crap if you called me a 'moronic lump of turd' ;)