[Pete Bessman] >the salient point is that Chris stipulated that proprietary software >producers *aren't* evil! The only way they can be evil is if you >stipulate a moral code which dictates as much.
I keep a good 150 or so .arr files around, stemming from the late 80s, early 90s, back when I used to do MIDI-only work with Cubase on an ST. A few years ago, I wanted to revisit/-edit my music from that time. So I turned to Steinberg to help me in decoding the files. The short version: I asked for file format docs, they said "Buy the latest Cubase instead", I said "What would I run it on?", they said "Mac or Win", I said "I own neither and don't plan to", they said "Then you're SOL". I don't know about you, but denying me unfettered access to my very own data certainly meets my definition of "evil". Cheers, Tim