On 08.08.2003 18:59 Uhr, Tobias Giesen wrote
> I have had personal (albeit mostly via email) contact with many Coda
> employees, and I am deeply convinced that if there is one company that you
> can trust, it's them.
>
> Many Coda employees, including decision-makers and chief software developers
> are Finale users themselves. This product is very important to them. Unless
> all the key figures die at the same time, there should be no situation that
> will make Finale 2004 unusable for the next 2 decades or so.
Come on Tobias, surely you are not assuming that MakeMusic is free from any dangers of bankruptcy, corruption, commercial interests?... never ever to go bust? Look at what happened to Opcode...
Well that is the point, isn't it? They are putting a sensible protection scheme into place PRECISELY so they WON'T go bankrupt.
I'm &%&%^#$% sick of the freeloader mentality that many people have today about copyrighted material and intellectual property. People seem to think I.P. just bubbles up out of the ground. The fatcats at MakeMusic come in every morning and gather up the thousands of lines of code that magically wrote and tested itself overnight, go out for a nice lunch of lobster and fine Chardonnay, write a couple of internal memos about how they can make quadrillions of dollars by screwing us, and then call it a day.
Let's get real. If we want the product to have a future, then the freeloaders need to be shut down. If that means each of us has to make one internet session a year, surely that isn't too much for any of us to handle.
If people want to bitch about something, try the Iraq war or something that deserves some bitching.
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