Will Roberts wrote: [snip]>
To be honest I think Sibelius's reputation for having a draconian copy protection scheme is unjustified, particularly since Finale 2004 introduced almost exactly the same system, except that with Finale you still can't de-authorize one of your computers without getting in touch with the folks at Coda to reinstall on another computer.
This reputation shows how important it is for any company to establish the proper reputation from the start, or it will stay with the program long after it has stopped being deserved.
Version 1 of Sibelius required the movement of authorization from one computer to another by means of a 3.5" floppy disk, and if anything happened to that floppy disk while it contained the authorization code, you were out of luck until you could contact Sibelius to try to rectify things. That was very Draconian! And was changed for version 2 and remains as easy as Finale's since they are essentially the same today. But Sibelius' reputation for having an awful copy protection scheme lingers even as they have announced version 4.
Same goes for Finale -- it can't shake the reputation among non-users as being extremely hard to learn and convoluted to use. That hasn't been true since Finale97 (8 years!) yet it is STILL the perception of people who may have tried version 1 or 2 or 3 or knew people who tried those versions.
Sibelius seems to have been able to overcome its item of bad repute far better than Finale has been able to overcome its bad reputation.
-- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
