I think, until everyone on the planet can reach unanimous agreement on
what consitutes 'decent software' (can't see it happening in my
lifetime...), can we just look upon this topic as a search for a simple,
immediate and pragmatic solution, imperfect though it may be, to a
contingent practical problem for a number of subscribers? It would be
nice to think that the Csound list can change the world of software as
we know it, but it would be even nicer  to have a quick-n-dirty way of
sorting messages. However hot (or cool?) the software, it will always
lag behind our ambitions for it... :-)

Richard Dobson

Tobias Kunze wrote:

> I am against adding the `[csound]' tag.  First, there is simply
> too much junk software around and you can't adapt to every single
> piece of it.  Second, you are punishing users of decent software.
> Third, and as a result, you are discouraging self-regulation of
> the software market: users of brain-damaged software won't have
> an incentive to switch to better software and, hence, software
> vendors won't have an incentive to write better programs.
>
> Just imagine everybody on earth would adapt to Microsofts products!
>
> Shudder...
>
> -Tobias Kunze