[Long] [OT] That Big Shadow Over Your Shoulder, Part 2, wasRe: [Coco] Re: OS Vulnerabilities

[John Murphy]

Check out Eric Raymond's latest rant (his word, not mine), entitled "The
Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story". It very much points out
similar thoughts.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html


Dennis said:
>
> Here's the TeX community attitude, as summed up in their Wikipedia entry
> for LilyPond, TeX-based software: "Unlike programs such as Finale and
> Sibelius, which feature a graphical user interface for entering notes,
> LilyPond focuses on producing beautiful output, comparable to
> professionally engraved scores."
>
> That is, of course, smoke and mirrors, cleverly retold to anyone who'll
> listen.

...SNIP
>

> Why is it that these LilyPond zealots are wrong, and whence the
> misperception?

>Because, horror of horrors, Finale and Sibelius and
> Graphire, with their GUIs, actually made music engraving available to the
> average musician who wasn't a computer programmer. How offensive is that,
> right?

....SNIP

 Okay, so in the hands of a working musician with a life to live and
> gigs to play

..SNIP
> Dennis
>