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