Re: Lilypond lobbying?

[Joseph Wakeling]

On 08/18/2011 03:21 PM, Mike Solomon wrote:
> My original question still stands, though.  I think that it is worth it for a 
> community of users of any free software (where I mean free in every sense of 
> the term) to be active in contacting organizations whose rules are hostile to 
> the free usage of software.  It helps organizations learn about free software 
> (both the software itself and the mentality of freedom behind the software), 
> thereby encouraging these organizations to adopt policies that are conducive 
> to this type of free-ness / free-dom.

One of the arguments you can use in this case is how Lilypond is a much
friendlier option for blind composers -- we have a list member who uses
it for precisely this reason.