Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] finale 2000 on wine
From: Jason (hormonex_AT_yankthechain.com)
Date: Sat Nov 24 2001 - 06:05:41 EET
you work at Berklee? how long have you been there? I graduated from there
two years ago, more or less.
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Glenn wrote:
> Jason has a good point. I was also told something similar once from a guy
> at Emagic, and they already were working on their BEOS port. I would LOVE
> to see a major software go linux but they just don't want to invest in it.
> Maybe it will a little easier after some of the companies do their in OSX,
> but who knows, I know nothing about that sort of thing. I also know quite a
> few people at the Berklee college where I work that are showing strong
> interest in Linux. It doesn't hurt if if a lot of people sign a good
> letter, so count me in.
>
> BTW, is there any type of notation available on linux at all?
>
> Glenn
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason" <hormonex_AT_yankthechain.com>
> To: <linux-audio-user_AT_music.columbia.edu>
> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 3:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] finale 2000 on wine
>
>
> 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.
>
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