[Ardour-Dev] Licensing and enforced payments

[Patrick Shirkey]

Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:07:08PM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
>
>   
>> patrick, you are absolutely, totally missing the point. being obnoxious
>> to users and creating hassles for users for anything other that solid
>> technical reasons is totally not what open source is about (even if
>> those users use evil operating systems).
>>     
>
> Agreed 100%. 
>   

What exactly do you agree with?

That there is an evil operating system?

That a License key in an open source application is obnoxious?

That Paul should not be able to make a reasonable income from Ardour 
because it offends a couple of Linux guys who can very easily disable 
the suggested functionality.



-- 
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.