At 11:04 PM 8/9/03 +1000, RockyRoad wrote: >PS: The system is acceptable to me. I am a >veteran of dongles (Logic), keydisks (Soundiver) >and other arcane systems. Of course the potential >demise of MakeMusic is a concern but the greater >issue their would be whether the last Finale >would continue to run on my continuously updated >Macs.
There may be something in what you just wrote. This is just a guess, but is there a general split between Mac- and PC-heritage users on this issue? Have Mac users have become accustomed to copy protection over the years, while PC users have been acculturated away from it? I have been a composer, writer, editor, programmer, publisher, and designer using exclusively unprotected software right from the days of my first (non-geek) machine in 1979 (graduating from TRS-80s to PCs, and never using Apples or Macs). Except for gaming (which I've never done), it's not until recently that I've heard much about copy protection for PC programs, whereas it seems to have been a fact of life for my Mac-using friends. Programs like Graphire with dongle protection seemed an anomaly in the PC world. (But Graphire, like many of the protected programs, started out as a Mac port.) This is not a Mac/PC troll. I'm just wondering if that observation is true. It would go a long way to explain a mutual difference in discomfort levels with copy protection, outside political/legal/philosophical/ethical/financial concerns. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
