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Am Montag, den 16.01.2012, 13:25 +0100 schrieb Jörn Nettingsmeier:

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> On 01/15/2012 02:29 PM, hermann wrote:

>

> > Not so long ago, for most people linux was == open source, that gone

> > lost more and more. You didn't need to be a geek to prefer the use of

> > open source tools, that could also lead by sozial or maybe political

> > skills.

> > Today, it becomes harder and harder to found a place were you could talk

> > with people over open source tools. More and more Close Source swap into

> > the Linux world. For me, for example that makes linux more to a 2.

> > windows.

> > The advance of open source is that knowledge gone be a community good.

> > Okay, for a Musician witch just wone use the best tools to make Music,

> > that didn't have any impact, but also musicians could be driven by there

> > political or social state, and for those the place witch could be called

> > "home" is slipped away.

>

> this argument works both ways: for professional users, all that counts

> is the availability of the tools required for a particular job. if i can

> get a closed-source tool (rather than none at all), that enables me to

> _stick_ with linux and not have to run a brown-paper-bag headless

> windows box in my basement that needlessly heats up my wine storage and

> irritates my router.

>

> i'm pretty sure there is nothing to fear from choice, ever.

>

> it's interesting to observe the (minor) frictions that arise when people

> who are coming from a proprietary operating system (who have certain

> user experience expectations and some degree of ignorance of how the

> open source community works) suddenly adopt open-source tools. i

> remember the tricks paul used to pretty much drive ardour-osx users into

> IRC at gunpoint - without these tricks, mac users tended to double-click

> on an installer, run into a problem, walk away complaining and were

> never seen again... this is probably also the reason why there's isn't a

> windows version of ardour (yet) - you got to backport the software, but

> you also got to forward-port user attitude, which can be a lot less

> tractable.

>

> in the bitwig case, the problem is much simpler: a proprietary tool

> enters an open-source ecosystem. it removes one more hurdle for people

> with a certain workflow to adopt (or stay with) linux.

> those who don't like it don't use it. the only friction point arises

> when those who don't like it tell others why they shouldn't be using it.

> _______________________________________________

I didn't tell others what they have to do or not, I just say that I

didn't like and use Close Source, and why I choose so. 
I guess that is free to me also. 
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