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   It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 21:37:32 JST It's FOSS

   Studio One has made a debut on Linux.

   https://news.itsfoss.com/studio-one-linux/

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 21:37:31 JST SuperDicq

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     @itsfoss@mastodon.social It's FOSS news
     Look inside
     Proprietary software

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 21:37:40 JST SuperDicq

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     • Shane.B

     @voidlink_@fosstodon.org Listen here everyone! You heard it here first! We will make "the Linux platform" (🤮) better by porting more proprietary garbage to it.
     
     :gnujihad::gnujihad::gnujihad:
     
     It's a net positive for everyone :gnutroll:

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     Shane.B (voidlink_@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 21:37:42 JST Shane.B

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     @SuperDicq understand where you coming from but still technically FOSS related. Its about a DAW that's coming to Linux and Linux is the FOSS part of the equation. Publication pieces like these need to be made so that users will adopt the software on the Linux platform. If things like these do well, then it encourages other company's to port there software over which in turn brings more eyes to Linux in general. Its a net positive

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 21:46:21 JST 翠星石

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     • Shane.B
     @voidlink_ >Its about a DAW that's coming to Linux and Linux is the FOSS part of the equation
     Sorry, but Linux is neither free, nor "open source" - it's proprietary software.
     
     It's proprietary, as that kernel contains proprietary software;
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/appletalk/cops_ffdrv.h
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/appletalk/cops_ltdrv.h
     (there's plenty more, but the above 2 is evidence enough).
     
     >Publication pieces like these need to be made so that users will adopt the software on the Linux platform.
     What systemd/Linux doesn't need is more proprietary malware.
     
     >If things like these do well, then it encourages other company's to port there software over which in turn brings more eyes to Linux in general. Its a net positive
     You seem to erroneously believe that popularity alone results in a net positive - that's rarely the case.
     
     Companies porting their proprietary malware over is a terrible thing, as it's proprietary temptation that most users are unable to reject - leading to a net negative.
     
     I would argue that one additional freedom enjoyer provides a great positive to GNU/Linux, while those who enjoy getting abused by proprietary software lead to a negative almost all the time.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 21:48:33 JST 翠星石

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     @voidlink_ I forgot, there's already multiple free DAW's available like; https://ardour.org/ so one should use such superior free DAWs instead of surrendering part of their freedom to a proprietary DAW.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 23:25:52 JST 翠星石

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     • Shane.B
     @voidlink_ >While not linear "More eyes" translates to more developers, and that in turn is potential for more FOSS devs
     With proprietary software, it's not possible for anyone but the chosen to be a developer - if you want to be one, you have to grovel at the feet of the proprietary masters and beg to be allowed to do gratis work for them.
     
     Why would people looking to be used by a proprietary DAW be developers exactly?
     
     >The ironic thing about FOSS related movements and all its derivatives
     Free software was the original and the best - "FOSS" is an much newer attempt to subvert freedom by confusing people into thinking that free software was written to be gratis and source-available, rather than give the users freedom.
     
     >tend to forget that "Freedom" gives you the freedom to use whatever you want.
     Yes, you have the freedom to shoot your feet, but that's clearly a foolish thing to do.
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     Shane.B (voidlink_@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 23:25:53 JST Shane.B

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     @Suiseiseki I happen to make use of Ardour and I like it. I'm by no means a sound engineer. I enjoy making music as a hobby that being said i don't believe that a tool is what makes someone good. If music producer's took the time to get to learn software such as Ardour they certainly could still make good music... Ardour is mentioned in the article as well as various other FOSS alternatives.

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     Shane.B (voidlink_@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 23:25:53 JST Shane.B

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     @Suiseiseki The ironic thing about FOSS related movements and all its derivatives is that they tend to forget that "Freedom" gives you the freedom to use whatever you want. And while I certainly think that the average Joe could do with a bit of education prior to making that decision, If they opt give away their data despite being appropriately informed of the risks it brings then its there choice cause they have the "Freedom" to do so

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 03:16:53 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • SuperDicq
     I suspect, not without much disappointment, that the humor in your post would fly way over the head of a number of readers, who would identify with and proudly support the self-defeating values and stances you clearly (to me) meant to criticize and parody :-(
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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 03:26:13 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • Shane.B
     bringing proprietary software to run onto a proprietary kernel will attract more abusers to bring more proprietary software onto a proprietary kernel? where's the good part of it? I mean, where's even the FLOSS part of it? none of that is FLOSS, and attracting suckers to it won't do them good, not to them, not to us, because if they fall for "oh, proprietary on proprietary is good because it's been FOLSS (sic)-washed", they will not even help us take the next step towards FLOSS proper. we need to stand for true FLOSS, and FOLSS is the negation of that, to fool those who aren't paying enough attention.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 07-Oct-2023 19:40:50 JST 翠星石

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     • LisPi
     @lispi314 Frankly, what manufacturers call "firmware" is software almost all of the time.
     
     I've determined that firmware is correctly used to refer to microprocessor instructions in external ROM chips - firm, being that you could couldn't electronically reprogram such chips, but could physically replace them - alas not much hardware is like that anymore.
     
     Now, manufacturers use it to refer to their proprietary software that they don't want you to understand or replace.
     
     For manufacturers who want to sell hardware that runs or works with Android, BusyBox/Linux and GNU/Linux, complying with the GPLv2 is as simple as dumping the source code over the wall and typically the community will clean up the driver and maintain it - but manufacturers don't want to do that - they write a driver specifically for Linux, which is clearly a derivative work, but instead of adding that as a module, they go run it on a microprocessor on the device and add a software loader plus a shim and they keep doing it, as most big Linux copyright holders have pledged not to sue.
     
     
     Linux-libre certainly removes all of such proprietary software.
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     LisPi (lispi314@mastodon.top)'s status on Saturday, 07-Oct-2023 19:40:52 JST LisPi

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     • Shane.B

     @Suiseiseki @voidlink_ >It's proprietary, as that kernel contains proprietary software;
     That looks more like firmware than a driver, what a weird hierarchy the project uses.

     In any case, does Linux Libre strip this out?