Re: midi

["Marek Paśnikowski" <marekpasnikowski@protonmail.com>]

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czwartek, 23 marca 2023 17:48, Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>:

> Some shady practices hint to certain problems,
> they need money and misuse people.
> Of course, the developers are not included in that ... I guess.

I want to make clear a different distinction -
software should not be judged on basis of its creators.
One of the benefits of software freedom is that anyone can take over projects gone wrong.

> I don’t want to investigate that, I have better things to do,
> but if you have an ethical understanding of "loving/helping people",
> such things shouldn’t happen.

Be careful with this understanding.
GPL is based on very precise, technical definitions of the four freedoms
in order to avoid any emotional biases.
Many tyrannical governments were sold on this premise of "helping the oppressed society".

> Lilypond is GNU-Projekt AFAIU
> so it has a better background and I guess people are not mistreated.
> It is always better, if possible, to use GNU packages
> because we all now why.

MuseScore is also GPL3-licensed,
why would you deem it "worse" just because it is not under the GNU umbrella?
I suggest to rethink this decision in a rational way -
you may be surprised by the results.

> But for now I have to solve my midi problem
> in order to be able to use lilypond at all.

At the end of the day,
it is your free choice to use different software.
I am sorry that I am not able to provide helpful advice regarding Lilypond.

> Am 23.03.23 um 15:17 schrieb Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide:
> 
> > Marek Paśnikowski marekpasnikowski@protonmail.com writes:
> > 
> > > ------- Original Message -------
> > > środa, 22 marca 2023 17:57, Gottfried gottfried@posteo.de napisał(a):
> > > 
> > > > I can’t play midi files or lilypond files ending ly.
> > > > In Musescore PulseAudio is used and I can listen to the songs.
> > > > In Lilypond or Frescobaldi I can’t listen. No sound.
> > > 
> > > Why don't you just use MuseScore?
> > > I am aware that the MuseScore-Sheet service has had some shady practices recently.
> > > However, the notation software itself is independent of that situation.
> > > I am of opinion, that the situation /could/ be an act sabotage by a competitor.
> > 
> > Isn’t the service run by the people who develop Musescore? If so, how
> > should shady practices be sabotage?

Look at the Microsoft's takeover of Nokia
when they were about to release the first real-Linux phone
for an example of a similar sabotage.

We should not throw the baby out with the bathwater here.
If Musescore is GPL3, is the best free music notation software created,
it just works and happens to have some bad people associated with its brand -
maybe we should boycott those people instead of boycotting the software?

With regards,
Marek Pasnikowski