[PD] Slightly OT: Goal for NAMM 2017: Pledge to Support Open Source

[William Huston]

Thanks for all who responded with early feedback :)

I think the plan should be

1) Form a small committee to draft the
"*Pledge to Support Open Source Community*"
with the target being
*manufactures of synthesizers, controllers, and other MIDI devices. *

2) Recruit the Top 10 or 25 big names to sign on to the letter.

3) A general petition for all others.

If anyone wants to be on the committee to create
the first draft, please contact me off-list.

Thanks!!



On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 5:10 PM, phil jones <interstar at gmail.com> wrote:

> I will totally sign a petition on this. And forward it to every musician I
> know.
>
> Phil
>
> On 21 January 2016 at 17:08, William Huston <williamahuston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I hope you all consider this an appropriate post for this list.
>>
>> I have been very upset at a certain manufacturer which I have decades of
>> experience owning their products.
>>
>> I love their machines! But they are pissing me off by doing things like:
>>
>>
>> *1) Bundle software which only runs on Proprietary Operating Systems.*
>> This is an excuse to increase street price. Linux users who want just the
>> hardware are forced to pay for something they do not want and cannot use.
>>
>>
>> *2) Publishing only a partial MIDI implementation*
>> *3) Using a secret API* which only their *closed source Editor* can
>> access, and which only runs on *Windows or MacOS*. ($$$).
>>
>> So *if I want a Korg product* (like their new Microkey Studio!!! I have
>> the perfect application for this!!!), *then I must also pay Microsoft or
>> Apple, in order to fully use the thing*. I must also must pay a premium
>> for software I  cannot use and may not want or need.
>>
>>
>> *I do not think this is fair or right!*
>>
>> Here's an idea:
>>
>> NAMM is going on right now. This is a time when all of the manufacturers
>> all get together.
>>
>> I think the Open Source community has a lot of clout now.
>>
>> My idea is to draft a *Pledge to Support Open Source Community*, which
>> we will try to get manufacturers support for by the next 2017 NAMM.
>>
>> My list so far is this:
>>
>> 1) *Publish full MIDI standard. **No hidden APIs *which only
>> closed-source tools, which only run on  Windows or Mac can access.
>>
>> 2) *Unbundle the hardware from the optional software*. Don't force a
>> linux hardware owner to pay for software he cannot use.
>>
>> 3) Consider including *sample editors *or *performance programs *as
>> hackable *C programs,* *Perl *or *Python *scripts, and also *sample
>> patches *in popular *open-source music programs *such as *CSound,
>> SuperCollider*, or *Pure Data*.
>>
>> Does anyone want to be a co-signer on this,
>> or have anything to add?
>>
>>
>> *I think it would be awesome to get the top 10-20 people*
>>
>> *in Open Source Music world to endorse this first thing. *
>> People like
>> *Miller, Onyx Ashanti, Ico, Julius O. Smith, *
>>
>> *Servando, Katja, Alexandre, Matt, IOhannes, Cheeto,*
>> *Richard Stallman*, ... c'mon people, help me out...
>>
>> Wow, that would pack a whallop!
>> I think we could have a major impact on hardware manufacturers.
>>
>> This is a way for me to take my complaint with Korg and make this a
>> campaign which could help users of other H/W vendors stuff as well.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>> BH
>>
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