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

[phil jones]

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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