Dubna is a nice little town to the north from Moscow, full of nerds (both physics and computer gurus), with good connectivity and friendly geek community. Some really cool high-tech companies are based here.
The ideology of Free Software states that programs can be free since the stimulus to write them is (for real programers) the satisfaction brought by creative activity, but not only money, right? (Ethical point of that ideology as I understand it is that programs also should be free)
Being both computer programer and (kind of) musician, I can say that those activities (programing and music) bring me comparable satisfaction. In fact, I take no one dime from my music and never will.
Principles of Free Software are applicable to any type of creative activity which need not expensive matherials and/or accesories. I can imagine free books, free music. There are some free sculptures created from literally a garbage (personally I don't like them, but somebody else may enjoy them, right?) Of cource, you can not build a structure for free, but you can share your project with other people for free!
Returning to music, for in-home composition you need not more than a cheap PC (my friend uses a 286!), simple electronic devices and maybe some not very expensive instruments.
My humble opinion is that musicians have ability to establish something like GPL for their artwork to allow anybody share them freely.
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Dubna is a nice little town to the north from Moscow, full of nerds (both physics and computer gurus), with good connectivity and friendly geek community. Some really cool high-tech companies are based here.
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The ideology of Free Software states that programs can be free since the stimulus to write them is (for real programers) the satisfaction brought by creative activity, but not only money, right? (Ethical point of that ideology as I understand it is that programs also should be free)
Being both computer programer and (kind of) musician, I can say that those activities (programing and music) bring me comparable satisfaction. In fact, I take no one dime from my music and never will.
Principles of Free Software are applicable to any type of creative activity which need not expensive matherials and/or accesories. I can imagine free books, free music. There are some free sculptures created from literally a garbage (personally I don't like them, but somebody else may enjoy them, right?) Of cource, you can not build a structure for free, but you can share your project with other people for free!
Returning to music, for in-home composition you need not more than a cheap PC (my friend uses a 286!), simple electronic devices and maybe some not very expensive instruments.
My humble opinion is that musicians have ability to establish something like GPL for their artwork to allow anybody share them freely.
Maybe, something like this exists already?