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@e277f9e5 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
@8d384fef >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.
@翠星石 @8d384fef >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?
@154219fe 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.