On Mar 1, 2013, at 4:47 AM, James Harkins wrote: > Zenaan Harkness <zen <at> freedbms.net> writes: > >> David, thank you so, so much! > > Oh, I thought enough bytes had been spilt on this subject already. > > IMO, this entire discussion is the result of misreading François's comment. > "It's working well for me in Windows" somehow turned into "advocacy," but... > to > advocate for a non-free OS is to say that others *should* use it. The > original > comment says nothing of the kind. At the very worst, one could possibly > stretch > and suppose that he meant "Well, if you were using Windows, you wouldn't have > encountered that Linux bug," but IMO this is really going out of one's way to > pick a fight. (After all, if that's what he meant, it would invite summaries > of > Windows bugs which Linux users don't suffer, and I'd venture that's a longer > list.) > > Since it started with a questionable interpretation, maybe we should let the > discussion end? I do appreciate that Lilypond has a stance on free software > and > I agree with that stance, but criminy, I'm really tired of list members > carping > about other users' choice of working environment. > > Basta? Maybe? Don't we have music to write?
Exactly why I have deleted every draft of every e-mail I wrote in response to this thread (except this one). Bravo, James. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
