I hope your opinion is not representative of the devcoin community?
markm was one of the original developers of devcoin, I believe, so his opinion carries a lot of weight.
The means to create the music should be open to everyone is what it means to be open source.
I don't question his programming skills.
But much like I can't advice him on how to create a cryptocoin, he shouldn't advice musicians how to create music.
Then the only advice I strongly want to give to the admins is that devcoin should remove its current advertizing slogans.
Devcoin does NOT desire to help artists create stuff and get payed for their work .
Instead (after this discussion) I conclude that the goal of devcoin is to create artificial substitutions for every human artform that exists, subsequently rendering those same artists obsolete by aiming to create algorithms and technics that will supposedly imitate every aspect of art so well that the illusion of human art will emerge without the need for a real human artist.
You gotta be kidding me.
Please, this all must be a misunderstanding, right?
Maybe I'm just being sensitive, but this discussion seems to be escalating and I don't know if that's productive. This is just a discussion on a forum thread-- brainstorming, opinions, et cetera. What's actually implemented is a system that pays creators for creating, currently limited to writing. Personally I'd look at how the project has actually manifested as opposed to unmanifested ideas.
The limitations and challenges of expanding the system to include other content such as music have already been outlined. They will take time and people-power to implement, and that's just a logistical reality at this point.
I am sorry for the big fonts I used. No escalation was intended.
I just think that a few very fundamental questions about devcoin have now surfaced, that in my opinion don't reflect what I thought devcoin stands for.
I need clarification.