Paying to improve free software one chooses not to use?

[J.B. Nicholson]

Jim wrote:
> In fact this is a good example of how Free Software enables users, even if they
> don't code themselves:  it's my understanding that Adam Good, who plays Turkish
> music professionally (with NYC band Dolunay among others), raised money to hire
> programmers to extend Lilypond to support Turkish. I'm an acquaintance of Adam's
> and he typically uses proprietary software, so he's not using Lilypond (with
> Frescobaldi) on ideological grounds.  Nevertheless he's seeing the benefit of 
> the
> GPL (as am I!).

This is highly unusual -- are you saying that Adam Good rejects using Lilypond, the 
free software program he raised money to improve? Perhaps you could expand on that or 
ask him to post here to help readers understand more of what's going on with that choice.

Relatedly, what are the "ideological grounds" to which you refer?

Thanks.