On Tuesday 17 August 2004 08:13 pm, Dave Robillard wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 17:14, John Check wrote: > > > group (tautological, I know, but bear with me). Both perspectives are > > > equally valid, and since they aren't mututally exclusive, let's be > > > nice to each other. > > > > This is pretty sweet, I haven't heard any negatives. > > You seem surprised?
Well, pleasantly. I always account for having to defend myself in the time budget. I didn't expect too much opposition, but I'm always ready for it. > > The flames don't come from mentioning commercial endeavors using free > software - you'll find very few people who are actually > anti-making-money (a common misunderstanding about free software people) > I'm one of you, so I don't have to look to /. to know what it's about. ;) > The flames come when you start talking about linux + proprietary > software... (and some of them will be from myself, for the record). > Free-as-in-speech and all that noise. > > There's nothing wrong with making commercial products out of LAD > software - I doubt anyone's going to have a negative attitude about > making jack/linux/etc based drop-in networked synths/etc. It's a pretty > cool idea, someone might even help. :) > Not negative.. I got jazzed and I didn't know if other people didn't because it'd been done and I didn't know about it or what. That been part of the due diligence phase. Discovery. > -DR-