On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 09:52:25AM +0200, Sven Axelsson wrote: > On 4 May 2017 at 00:37, Devin Ulibarri <devin@ulibarri.website> wrote: > > At any rate, just watch out, if Apple continually tries to advance > > into imitating free/libre branding in an attempt to push it out of > > the market completely, then that would be a problem for all of us. > > Honestly, I don't understand what Apple has to do with this? The Lily > app is developed by a small UK-based company called Pelican 7. It just > happens to be available in the iTunes Store - as well as on Google > Play and Amazon Appstore. [...]
Honestly, I think the idea that Apple is trying to push free/libre software out of the market is complete hooey. There are major free software projects contributed by Apple / Apple developers, like LLVM/clang and others. Just because they are a profit-making business that has to be accountable to their shareholders doesn't automatically make them bad or evil or whatever. Yeah, sometimes their business model may lead them to make decisions that are not necessarily aligned with purist open source advocacy, but that doesn't mean that they are out to "subvert" the open source community or "push it out of the market", or any of the other malinformed conspiracy theories that, frankly, are about as believable as UFO fanaticism. And none of this is really relevant here on the Lilypond mailing list anyway. Since when did Lilypond hold exclusive trademarks over every English word that may or may not have been derived from "lily", and what does this even have to do with Apple, since the Lily app isn't even made by Apple themselves in the first place? Sounds like uninformed alarmists' kneejerk reaction to me. T -- "A one-question geek test. If you get the joke, you're a geek: Seen on a California license plate on a VW Beetle: 'FEATURE'..." -- Joshua D. Wachs - Natural Intelligence, Inc. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
