--- On Sun, 9/19/10, João Pais jmmmpais@googlemail.com wrote:
From: João Pais jmmmpais@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [PD] "I'm on unix, I'm much better than windows users!" (was Pd-extended 0.42.5 release candidate 6 released!) To: "Bernardo Barros" bernardobarros2@gmail.com Cc: "pd-list" pd-list@iem.at Date: Sunday, September 19, 2010, 9:06 AM
What's the point of advocating a
proprietary operating system that
does not even have good quality software?
can you give examples? I work with Pd, sibelius, reaper, ...
Other think is: do not talk about price when you talk
about free
software.... That's losing the point. I think free
software should be
of very good quality and people should be encouraged
to pay for it if
they make money of of it, or if they can contribute
with something.
I never talked about price about free software, don't know where you got that. Can you be more precise?
I think all software should be of good quality. When I spend X hours trying to work with an OS and I get nothing done, that's a criteria for me to leave that os and go to an other where I can produce something, not just be solving problems all the time. but that's my decision.
With any free software that you deem not up to your standards,
make sure to check back periodically to see if its feature set
has changed substantially since the last time you used it.
I think this is especially important for a free OS, because as
improvements/bug fixes/hardware support start to snowball, the problems that ate up all your time can quickly disappear.
-Jonathan