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OSS Music Composer Gaining Attention

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the sounds-like-fun dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Following in the footsteps of Psycle, VioLet Composer is a completely GPLed music composer for Windows that has slowly but surely been gaining attention. In an interview at Laptoprockers the author covers not only the program itself but the his reasoning behind choosing to open the source using the GPL."

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  1. Backups by Short+Circuit · · Score: 5, Funny
    FTFA:

    This guarantees that in the future it will *always* be possible for *anyone* to pick up from some point in VC development and continue it or to make their own flavour of it. The GPL also guarantees that VC will always be available for free, even if I or someone else decides to make a commercial derivative later on.

    The day the source code to Buzz got lost was a very sad day and there was absolutely nothing anyone could do. We'd just had an updated version of Buzz released and suddenly everyone realised there would *never* be another one. By publishing not just the application but also all of the files that go together to make it, I'm making sure this can't happen to my little corner of the scene again. "Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies." - Linus Torvalds
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  2. I need a copy of that... by Short+Circuit · · Score: 3, Funny
    FTFA:

    I relieve my stress by working on other things such as my duplicate picture finder (for all those hundreds of thousands of pictures of... stuff... that I have)... I need a copy of that. No, not that, that.
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  3. Moo by Chacham · · Score: 3, Funny

    He made it OSS? Why, that's music to me ears!

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  4. Re:Don't forget ModPlug by shish · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you're going to reply to a question with a command line command, at least make sure it's the right one... (you want "apt-get install rosegarden")

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  5. Re:Attention can be a bad thing by LordOfTheNoobs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gentlemen, we must find a way to plug the analog instrument hole. Only pre-approved instruments with prerecorded and approved music will be sold. With our new patented `like-playing' technology, customers can feel like they're actually playing. Any fair-licensed author-play instruments detecting the play of copyrighted works will immediately call home to beat those pirates and keep sales cost low!

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  6. Re:Some User Feedback... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm running this under Windows 2003. You are coming to a sad realization; cancel or allow?