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		hernan7 on April 23, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter Lots of proprietary software in the music industry too. Even if you want to create music as a hobby on your computer, things like samples are all in proprietary formats.

vog on April 23, 2011 | [–]

> things like samples are all in proprietary formats

This is not exactly true. There do exist free samples in open formats, for instance the Freepats project:

http://freepats.zenvoid.org/

ramchip on April 24, 2011 | [–]

Count hardware design and embedded systems in as well. Many of us work in a morass of proprietary tools and obfuscated IP cores.

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