On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 13:52 US/Eastern, Buddha Buck wrote:
On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 06:43 US/Eastern, Bernard Hill wrote:
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chemnitz.de, Joerg Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
A short remark about this. Somtimes open source is equated with
cost free. But even
Wil,
I checked your web site, and no mention is made of having tested or running
Skink under Windows XP. I would imagine that you have had some feedback by
now regarding the capability of Skink with Win XP Pro, and could you
comment on this, please. As a side, someone told me that XP has a
Don Whitener wrote:
As a side, someone told me that XP
has a built-in JRE. Do you have any knowledge of this? Would separate
installation of JRE still be necessary? I have dug around a bit at
Microsoft, but have not yet found an answer.
Microsoft's VM is not 100% compatible with the one from
- Original Message -
From: Bert Van Vreckem [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good grief! How can you possibly do something for a living that
you
don't like to do?
This is the sad condition of most of humanity :-(
But programming is slightly different: one can enjoy programming
something one is
I dug around a bit more late last evening. I'm not sure that I understand
all that I know about this. It seems that VM may sort of go away come the
first of the year. For more 'enlightnment', see:
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/java/
and
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
http://www.opensource.org/halloween
The ingeneers came to some very interesting conclusions:
...
All that is as maybe: I am not competent to judge. My question is
simple: who pays the NoteEdit developers?
Therfore I recommendend the Halloween
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:33:01PM +0100, Bernard Hill wrote:
Why are there no professional musicians who perform without being paid
for it?
Surely you are not trying to say that no professional musician would
ever perform without payment! I know some who do. Charity events,
playing for fun or
Phil Taylor wrote -
That's the problem with live editing. The parser has to be
absolutely bullet-proof, as the user can hit it with absolutely
any combination of symbols. There is really no way you can
test it enough either. That's one reason why I kept BarFly
free for several years while
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I'm not saying
there will be no errors but we are talking shareware not big software house.
I hope you are not implying that software sold by shareware methods is
not as good as that sold off-the-shelf?
Bernard Hill
Braeburn Software
A.M. Kuchling wrote:
* Members of the appropriate sex like musicians.
Might be somewhat off-topic, but this reminds me of a masterclass I once
attended - by the great classical guitarist Manuel Barrueco.
After we had bombared the maestro with questions about fingering,
polishing nails, and
Bernard Hill wrote:
...
Why are there no professional musicians who perform without being paid
for it?
Hey, I'm a professional musician, and I *do* perform without being paid
for it quite a lot, and so do all the collegues I know!
Frank Nordberg
http://www.musicaviva.com
To
Jeff Bigler writes:
|
| Another angle is the business model that a former employer of mine
| (Cygnus Solutions) used. Cygnus sold commercial-grade support and
| development for free software.
...
| Customers could also hire Cygnus to add specific
| features or optimizations that
Bernard Hill wrote -
I hope you are not implying that software sold by shareware methods is
not as good as that sold off-the-shelf?
It's probably better in some ways. For an analogy, if you buy your
vegetables from your neighbour who's grown them in his back garden they are probably
better
iabc already runs and compiles under Windows and Linux. It uses wxWindows
(www.wxwindows.org) as a GUI.
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bert Van Vreckem
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Bernard Hill wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], A.M. Kuchling
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* Programming is fun.
Not when you do it for a living.
Good grief! How can you possibly do something for a living that you
don't
Bernard Hill writes:
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| while I'm one man in my back bedroom, the odd glitch might slip through.
|
| Yes. Of course I am in the same position.
|
| I've tried using beta testers but they are rarely fierce enough.
|
| So I fix bugs free and
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Sent: 7/4/03 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [abcusers] Free notation program for Windows - let's write
it...
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Bert Van Vreckem wrote -
However, a 'live'
conversion to sheet music while I'm typing ABC would be nice. But very
difficult to implement, I imagine.
That's exactly
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
chemnitz.de, Joerg Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
A short remark about this. Somtimes open source is equated with
cost free. But even if I'd produce a Qt-only version, you had
to pay a lot. Not to me but to the Qt developer Trolltech and
to Microsoft.
So what
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 06:43 AM, Bernard Hill wrote:
So what encourages the developer to develop code if there is no payment
to the developer?
Why are there amateur musicians who perform without being paid for it?
* Playing music is fun, payment or not.
* They want to compose their own
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's exactly what Abacus does. Version 1 is
available from http://www.abacusmusic.co.uk/ but hang
around, maybe just for a few days, and version 2 will
be out.
Seems to be a nice idea! Only too bad that when I made
a typing mistake, your
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
A short remark about this. Somtimes open source is equated with
cost free. But even if I'd produce a Qt-only version, you had
to pay a lot. Not to me but to the Qt developer Trolltech and
to Microsoft.
So what encourages the developer to develop
Bernard Hill writes:
| In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| chemnitz.de, Joerg Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
|
| A short remark about this. Somtimes open source is equated with
| cost free. But even if I'd produce a Qt-only version, you had
| to pay a lot. Not to me but to the Qt developer Trolltech
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], A.M. Kuchling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 06:43 AM, Bernard Hill wrote:
So what encourages the developer to develop code if there is no payment
to the developer?
Why are there amateur musicians who perform without being paid for it?
Joerg Anders writes:
| On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
| I confess I don't understand the Linux setup *at all*.
|
| Perhaps interesting: Two Microsoft ingeneers, Vinod Valloppillil and
| Josh Cohen had the task to answer this question in an internal
| Microsoft paper, which was betrayed
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Galleitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Thursday 03 July 2003 10:43 am, Bernard Hill wrote:
So what encourages the developer to develop code if there is no payment
to the developer?
AMK mostly summarised it. I found it difficult to really understand why it
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Chambers
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Bernard Hill writes:
| In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| chemnitz.de, Joerg Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
|
| A short remark about this. Somtimes open source is equated with
| cost free. But even if I'd produce a Qt-only version,
I.Oppenheim wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's exactly what Abacus does. Version 1 is
available from http://www.abacusmusic.co.uk/ but hang
around, maybe just for a few days, and version 2 will
be out.
Seems to be a nice idea! Only too bad that when I made
a typing
Irwin Oppenheim said -
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's exactly what Abacus does. Version 1 is
available from http://www.abacusmusic.co.uk/ but hang
around, maybe just for a few days, and version 2 will
be out.
Seems to be a nice idea! Only too bad that when I made
a
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:41:26PM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote:
I.Oppenheim wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's exactly what Abacus does. Version 1 is
available from http://www.abacusmusic.co.uk/ but hang
around, maybe just for a few days, and version 2 will
be
Bernard Hill writes:
|
| ... none of that tells me why anyone creates software in the first
| place. I do not start projects which are not going to bring money in. I
| see clearly that as an end-user having the source code is beneficial -
| but what's in it for the programmer who created it?
From: Calum Galleitch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 20:03:01 +
That doesn't mean that all software should be made Free. Your
software is unique, as far as I know, in coming as close to a freehand
notation package as possible. I don't think there's anything else
with your
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