Yes yes, Open Source will be the panacea that will solve everything because DRM is killing everything. And Linux will be talking over the market in 2002....no 2003....wait...2004...erg....2005.....no.....2006.....eh.....2007?......2008!......maybe 2009?.....2010!.....no no, 2011 for sure!
I don't think I'd want Finale 3.2 resurrected on a modern platform anymore than I'd want Photoshop 1.0 even if the source code was available and someone toiled on it for no financial gain to make it run. What happens if something goes wrong? What if my Score for this Grammy piece I was working on yesterday didn't save or won't open anymore. Or if none of them open anymore? I'll stick to paid software thanks. I just wish MakeMusic would the foresight to include things like saving to older versions of Finale, or importing old Finale files in without messing things up. On Monday, February 28, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: As you well know, Dennis, DRM is the single most life-shortening aspect of > any software system. This is why I think it is absolutely critical for our > industry to have open source alternatives of a professional level. Open > source not only does not have DRM, the fact that one has access to the > source code means that it is possible to bring it into the future without > depending on a company that may or may not exist or have an interest in > doing so. > > The closest thing I am aware of to an open source alternative to Finale is > MuseScore. The bad news is, it is nowhere near an viable replacement yet. > The good news is, it is has a large and active development community that > has just released V 1.00, and the output from 1.00 is pretty respectable. > The even better news is that, like so much other open source, it is > tri-platform, meaning Linux users have the option to use it. > > I'd be interesting in finding out about other open source initiatives for > music, especially an audio editor. > > Open source is not a panacea, but it's the best long-term strategy for > archival that I can see at the moment. > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz < > bath...@maltedmedia.com> wrote: > > > > > Try to get keys and validations and authorizations for software for > > companies > > that are gone. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
