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> hardware whose firmware is free software I like the idea, but as someone who makes music, I'm having a hard time finding anything that is professional-grade

> hardware whose firmware is free software I like the idea, but as someone who makes music, I'm having a hard time finding anything that is professional-grade and ships firmware that is free software. Brands I'm using now is Adams Audio, Novation, Mackie, Elektron, Korg, Novation and more, and I don't think a single one of them ships FOSS firmware. It would limit my options considerably, even though I think it would be better long-term.

kragen 4y ago
Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest that "the correct solution" is actually feasible right now. We are in a really bad situation with respect to user freedom of software, as I predicted we would be in this essay I wrote late last millennium: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kragen-software.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kragen-software.html
- capableweb 4y ago
  > Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest that "the correct solution" is actually feasible right now Ah, I understand. I guess starting your comment with "I think the correct solution is" and not including the disclaimer of "you can't actually do this today" is prone to making people believing you could do something like that today :) No harm done though, thanks for explaining.
  - kragen 4y ago
    This is a political problem, not a technical one, so the solution is collective action, not individual action. 300 years ago you could reasonably have said, "The correct solution to the poverty of the Russian peasants is for them to move to the cities and start an industrial revolution," and you would have been right, but if as a serf you attempted this you would have in most cases been beaten and sent back to the feudal estate you came from, if not killed. It took a century and a half plagued with serf revolts and bloodshed before serfdom was abolished, and even today the Russian peasants are subject to conscription, arbitrary detention, and many limitations on their freedom.
tpm 4y ago
Modules from Mutable Instruments do, though MI is now sadly (for the modular world) ending its business for personal reasons.

kragen 4y ago

Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest that "the correct solution" is actually feasible right now. We are in a really bad situation with respect to user freedom of software, as I predicted we would be in this essay I wrote late last millennium: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kragen-software.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kragen-software.html

capableweb 4y ago
> Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest that "the correct solution" is actually feasible right now Ah, I understand. I guess starting your comment with "I think the correct solution is" and not including the disclaimer of "you can't actually do this today" is prone to making people believing you could do something like that today :) No harm done though, thanks for explaining.
- kragen 4y ago
  This is a political problem, not a technical one, so the solution is collective action, not individual action. 300 years ago you could reasonably have said, "The correct solution to the poverty of the Russian peasants is for them to move to the cities and start an industrial revolution," and you would have been right, but if as a serf you attempted this you would have in most cases been beaten and sent back to the feudal estate you came from, if not killed. It took a century and a half plagued with serf revolts and bloodshed before serfdom was abolished, and even today the Russian peasants are subject to conscription, arbitrary detention, and many limitations on their freedom.

tpm 4y ago

Modules from Mutable Instruments do, though MI is now sadly (for the modular world) ending its business for personal reasons.