Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 26.04.2007 Randolph Peters wrote:
Should we expect another upgrade to Finale 2007 before Finale 2008
comes at us?
No.
Johannes
While I agree with Johannes on this answer, I would phrase it differently:
*Should* we expect another upgrade? Yes, because as end-users who have
paid the price the company has asked, we have a right to receive a
product which works as advertised. And because a software company which
really cared about its product would be constantly striving to eliminate
bugs.
*Will we get* another upgrade? No, because MakeMusic doesn't seem to be
that sort of company and doesn't appear (as a company -- I remain
convinced the development team would dearly love to be given free reign
to fix the long-standing bugs) to care if one of their flagship products
is bug-filled. They're happy to have a bug-riddled program on the
market and proud to market it as a great product. They would rather
save any possible bug fixes after the first flurry of update patches
(which I'm convinced are only released to quiet the most vocal
complaints, not because they really want to fix anything) for the next
annual "upgrade" (is it really an upgrade when they fix bugs?) where
they can charge money.
To get to another reply which brought up yet again the notion of Finale
being subscription-ware -- I think the big difference is that with what
I would imagine real subscription-ware to be, the current version stops
working at some fixed date so the user absolutely has to pay the
subscription fee to keep using the program at all. With Finale, any of
us are free to jump off the
"pay-for-features-you-probably-won't-use-along-with-a-couple-of-bug-fixes"
annual upgrade merry-go-round and to continue to use our most recently
purchased version (and any/all previous versions) for as long as we wish
to. That's the big difference.
Nobody is forcing any of us to upgrade at all. Well, nobody except
fellow users with whom we might have to share files, if they have
upgraded and we haven't. But with the continued improvement in MusicXML
and the Dolet plug-ins, that is becoming less and less important.
--
David H. Bailey
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