Re: Advocating non-free softwares

[Tim McNamara]

On Mar 1, 2013, at 4:47 AM, James Harkins wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness <zen <at> freedbms.net> writes:
> 
>> David, thank you so, so much!
> 
> Oh, I thought enough bytes had been spilt on this subject already.
> 
> IMO, this entire discussion is the result of misreading François's comment. 
> "It's working well for me in Windows" somehow turned into "advocacy," but... 
> to 
> advocate for a non-free OS is to say that others *should* use it. The 
> original 
> comment says nothing of the kind. At the very worst, one could possibly 
> stretch 
> and suppose that he meant "Well, if you were using Windows, you wouldn't have 
> encountered that Linux bug," but IMO this is really going out of one's way to 
> pick a fight. (After all, if that's what he meant, it would invite summaries 
> of 
> Windows bugs which Linux users don't suffer, and I'd venture that's a longer 
> list.)
> 
> Since it started with a questionable interpretation, maybe we should let the 
> discussion end? I do appreciate that Lilypond has a stance on free software 
> and 
> I agree with that stance, but criminy, I'm really tired of list members 
> carping 
> about other users' choice of working environment.
> 
> Basta? Maybe? Don't we have music to write?

Exactly why I have deleted every draft of every e-mail I wrote in response to 
this thread (except this one).  Bravo, James.