Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] finale 2000 on wine
From: Jeremiah Benham (jjbenham_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Nov 23 2001 - 19:23:44 EET
I don't understand why they don't make their programs
in java. They would not have to worry about making a
mac and win then porting it to others. Just making it
java would allow it to work on any OS that can run
java wouldn't it. Why not kill all birds with one
stone?
Jeremiah
--- Jason <hormonex_AT_yankthechain.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
>
> --
> YankTheChain.com - You can pretend we're not here.
> That's what I do.
>
> ,
>
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