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<?xml version='1.0' encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE book [
<!ENTITY win98 "Microsoft Windows 98">
<!ENTITY java2 "Sun Microsystem's Java 1.2">
<!ENTITY n160 "Compaq Evo n160">
<!ENTITY stallman "Richard Stallman">
<!ENTITY ags "Advanced Gtk+ Sequencer">
]>
<!-- Copyright (C) 2005-2018 Jo\u00EBl Kr\u00E4hemann -->
<!-- Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document -->
<!-- under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 -->
<!-- or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; -->
<!-- with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. -->
<!-- A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU -->
<!-- Free Documentation License". -->
<preface>
<title>Foreword</title>
<para>
When I started to use GNU/Linux in 2001 I missed only one thing. A sequencer with a
nice GUI. There was already rosegarden available. But who didn't get stuck of midi
setup, yet? The time before I was using free software and became an affiliate to its
community I was using &win98; on my father's desktop computer and did my first steps
in &java2;.
</para>
<para>
My very first own Notebook was a &n160; and it's preinstalled &win98; had to vanish
because I became a fellow of &stallman;. Soon, I begun to code and older I became my
demands to ags increased. I developed the concept of the underlying audio library
myself as not graduated college student.
</para>
<para>
October 2005, I decided to reimplement &ags; from scratch in order to get rid of
inherited burden. And it was one big development process until I was almost satisfied
with it's design. There was a time in 2007 where I even wanted to replace GObject and
Gtk+ dependencies with my own libraries I begun to develop. I'm glad of didn't doing
so.
</para>
<para>
Thank you!
</para>
</preface>
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