This whole strain of argument is just stupid because there's no resolution. I hear it all the time with graphics programs as well (Charlemagne, what are you on about using DA as an example? It just hosts images, it doesn’t create them.)Someone writes something terrible in FL, they get rich, fucking well done the person who did that, you are now rich through little effort. I don’t see the problem guys, what exactly do you want fixed? Should we ban software accessibility?
It’s like earlier, when people bitch about topical popstar (Justin Beiber) or the evil music industry, if there wasn't a market for that stuff then it wouldn't be stupidly popular and these people would not be rich. You’re telling me that if you got the opportunity to write, I dunno, Lady Gaga’s next big hit for $4.Squllion, you’d turn it down because it just isn’t art and you’d be killing music? I guess it depends on how strongly you believe in the morals of longitudinal waves through air as a medium I suppose ;D.
Anyway stop being pretentious. Writing music on a computer takes some degree of skill and the ability to translate what’s in your head to reality. What about the multitude of kids who learn a few chords on guitar and start thinking they’re fucking musical gods? FL (or any other kind of software that does something that was initially not digital ever) has only done good to art as is gives free, accessible and personalised expression, whether you like that expression or not. It’s not cheating, it’s just a different skill.
Branden's comment about FL was probably the luziest of the lot.