Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] finale 2000 on wine
From: Jason (hormonex_AT_yankthechain.com)
Date: Fri Nov 23 2001 - 10:32:37 EET
I used to work for 12 tone systems, the company that develops cakewalk and
Sonar. I used to be the guy that answered all the
customerservice_AT_cakewalk.com email, and every month or so some guy would
write to them and ask when we were going to do a linux or BeOS port, and
to be quite honest, we never took such requests very seriously. companies
like that have such a small user base and suffer from such high levels of
piracy that they're constantly teetering on the brink of financial
insolvency. They simply don't have the resources to hire Un*x programmers
to do the work when the returns on doing a Un*x port would be so small.
And they're not going to open source their code, because most of them are
heavily invested in proprietary systems and NDA's with Microsoft or apple
to make
their programs work on innefficient platforms like Windows 9x or the Old
MacOS. They depend too much on the operating system companyies that they
develop with in order for their buggy poorly designed programs to run as
badly as they do; as a consequence, they are not going to risk alienating
those companies by throwing in with the enemy.
In all honesty, I got interested in programming and then linux because
nobody was writing the kind of software that I wanted as a professional
sound engineer, and it was all to obvious that the market will probably
never bear a commercial suite of programs like teh one that should exist
for audio applications. My suggestion is that those of you who are
interested in notation software give up on a commercial because the market
you
represent is even smaller than the production market; find a linux
notation project and get involved and adopt a DIY mentality if you can't
find what you're looking for. The only way the programs we want will exist
is if we write them ourselves and forget about trying to get the
commercial software industry to do it for us, because their goals are much
different than ours.
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Malcolm Smith wrote:
> In message <3BFD6A95.ABC4469C_AT_folkwang-hochschule.de>, Jörn
> Nettingsmeier <nettings_AT_folkwang-hochschule.de> writes
> >> > everyone on the list to write a letters asking to port Sibelius or Finale
> >> > natively onto linux.
> >>
> >> That made me think: Perhaps LAU could sponsor and send such letters,
> >> with a signatures list of interested members ?
> >
> >ok, whoever wants to sign, follow up to this thread.
> >later we can beef all the replies up into a nice letter.
>
> COUNT ME IN
>
> I wrote to Sibelius a year or so ago asking for Linux support, but they
> said no. Maybe if enough of us speak....
>
> They have just released Version 2, of course, so their programmers are
> probably itching for some new challenge. Better still they could do the
> honourable thing and release the source.
>
> Malcolm
>
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