Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2012-05-25 um 02:07 schrieb Thomas Morley:

> This is a long discussion. We had similar ones in the past. That's  
> useless.
> I followed the development of 2.15. in every detail, that I understood
> and I want to say that due to David's engagement and skill-ranks
> LilyPond has improved in a way that I hardly can believe.
>
> If David isn't payed for his work in an amount that he can survive,
> he's forced to leave LilyPond.
> I don't want that. So I support him.

Dito.

I used LilyPond for paid projects in the past (not that the payment  
would have fit my hours), I'm using it to make beautiful songbooklets  
as gifts for my friends (and for myself, of course). The few € I’m  
giving to David are not much more than a warm "thank you".
(I'm still grateful to the other wizards that lowercase minor chord  
names got implemented after my whining.)

I'm a member of DANTE (German TUG) and the ConTeXt group, to  
contribute a bit to TeX's development, and I irregularly throw some 10  
€ at some other project or shareware (NeoOffice, GraphicsConverter,  
CyberDuck...).

That’s not much, but I know I’m one of the better payers in OS world  
(besides that few companies that fund big projects).
And I promised myself to donate the money that I used to give to my  
church, insetad to projects that help making the world a better place  
(most of them not software related).

I paid Adobe some thousand € for several versions of their Creative  
Suite and wouldn’t be able to do the same work in the same (or better)  
quality at the same (or better) speed using Gimp, Inkscape and Scribus  
or ConTeXt, but the few projects I still need CS for won’t pay the  
next version. (And I don’t use unlicensed software.)


Greetlings, Hraban