Thanks for the scolding. I rest my case. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of David W. Fenton > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 5:35 PM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: RE: [Finale] Goodbye Finale > > On 5 Aug 2007 at 11:29, Steve Schow wrote: > > > I haven't been lurking on this list very long, > > Take that thought and meditate on its implications for a while. > > > but the impression I > > That's the keyword in everything you've said... > > > have so far is that a large majority of the chatter on here is > > opinionated conjecture about how bad the bugs in Finale are and why > > they would so much rather be using Sibelius. > > You are simply wrong. > > The discussion of the bugs in Finale is not by any means conjecture, > and the severity of them is driving people who've been dedicated to > using and Finale for a very long time (I started using Finale in > 1991, for instance) to consider switching to the competition. > > That is a sea change in attitude on this list over the last two > years. Finale 2007 and 2008 along with the new plateau reached with > Sibelius 4 (and now 5, with it's scroll view) have added two new > ingredients to the mix: > > 1. unacceptably buggy Finale releases > > 2. enhancements to Sibelius that make it more comfortable for Finale > users. > > These factors changed the equation and have generated the > dissatisfaction that you see expressed on this list in recent times. > But it's coming from people who are really dedicated Finale users. > > MakeMusic *better* be paying attention to this forum if they want to > survive, or they're going to lose one of their core constituencies. > > -- > David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com > David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
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