 It is the golden hour here on this leap day down in Florida, golden hour meaning the light is really good outside right now and it's almost sunset, so hopefully I look awesome to you guys. Anyway, I want to talk about something real quick, something I've heard a few times and I recently watched a video, it was a great video about LMS but they mentioned Ardor, Ardor is music track recording software and it's great. I haven't used it in a couple of years but I used it back in the day, I loved it. But one of the misconceptions about it is that it's not free and some people will point out that it's free, liber free but it's not free as in beer free because you have to pay for it which is not true at all. Ardor is under the GPL 2 license I believe which means it is free and will always be free both for cost and in freedom for usage. Now with GPL license I can sell it but you're not really selling software when you do that, you're selling, you're paying for me to provide it to you in many cases or other instances but that's the normal thing. So if you go to the Ardor website and you go to download it shows that it's got different subscriptions and you can pay a dollar a month or up on up for different things. You're not paying for the software, you can say you're paying for the software but you're not paying, you're paying for them to provide it for you, for them to compile it for you to give you automatic updates and stuff like that from their website. If you're on Linux you already get a compiled version through your repositories because there is nothing saying that I can't compile it and share it with you. You can also get the source code free from the Ardor project at their website and download and compile it yourself for free. What they're charging for is compiling it for you and providing it for you so you get those updates, they do nightly builds and you get access to that which again you can pull the software nightly and compile it yourself. So it is free, it's just they're charging a subscription to try to raise money for the developers which is fine but there's nothing to stop me from compiling and sharing with you as most Linux distrus do as it's in their repositories. So it's great software, if you like software especially you know if it's free in open-source software think about supporting the developers, think about something like that that's replacing software that the proprietary software that might be a couple hundred dollars and think about taking oh hey you know what I could have spent two or three hundred dollars or even fifty dollars on a program like this I'm going to give them five dollars a month or ten dollars a month. I do that, I try to put five or ten dollars a month, I pick a project and I try to support them financially some open-source project. If everyone did that everyone you know all these software developers would make a you know it's decent chunk of change but it just bothered me that I hear that quite often that it's not free software or it's it's Libre software but it's not free as in beer software which is the opposite of what you would normally hear but and it's because their website comes across that and I'm not gonna say how I feel about that I mean it's one of those it's one of those weird things that you know they have every right to I think I personally think developers should get paid I think software should always be free you should never ever pay for software but paying somebody to develop software or paying someone to provide that software for you or do some sort of work for you I think is a great thing it's a fine line and a lot people don't understand the difference but there's a huge difference in that when it comes to freedom of software it's your freedom of use as well as the cost but there is there are people working on it and you should support them not everyone does and you can't support every project every little bit of software on my desktop you know how many software projects there are I personally try to look for the smaller ones too like I don't usually I'm not gonna I don't think I've ever donated any money to Blender because they make a decent chunk of change or Libre office that because people support them all time I try to look for those little projects and that I like and support them so think about doing the same I've actually thought about doing on my channel where I let you guys know this month I'm supporting so-and-so and like maybe a lot of my followers can go and support that same person that month so that that developer might get a big chunk of change that month in the next month I find another developer and I say I'm gonna support this guy I don't know I don't know if my subscribers would actually go for something like that let me know in the comments below if you want to hear who I subscribe or who I support so that maybe you could support a few dollars I mean I have lots of viewers but very few of them support me so the dogs that they're gonna go support somebody I'm suggesting might not but maybe you're more interested in supporting software developers than someone who talks to a camera who knows but let me know in the comments below would you be interested in hearing who I'm donating to each month who I'm I hate using the word donate who I'm supporting each month and that you would be interested in maybe supporting the same people let's discuss that anyway thanks for watching I hope that you have a great day