On 9 Aug 2003 at 9:13, Andrew Stiller wrote:
the PIRATES and THEIR customers aren't gonna be inconvenienced by
the copy protection, while we loyal MakeMusic customers ARE
inconvenienced.
--
David H. Bailey
I had vowed to stay out of this argument, but I can't help but notice
that
the PIRATES and THEIR customers aren't gonna be inconvenienced by
the copy protection, while we loyal MakeMusic customers ARE
inconvenienced.
--
David H. Bailey
I had vowed to stay out of this argument, but I can't help but notice
that this argument is identical to that used by the gun lobby
Well, that's reassuring! (not!)
Hands up, anybody who has ever owned copy-protected software (games
included) where the company has gone out of business and the copy
protection has gotten lost or destroyed?
Are we all reassued now?
Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 09.08.2003 2:31 Uhr, Craig
At 08:19 AM 8/9/03 -0500, Craig Parmerlee wrote:
Frankly I can't imagine why anybody who
intended to abide by the license would be complaining about this.
It's for the same reason somebody might object to being searched while
having nothing to hide, or to seat belt laws while always wearing one,
On 09.08.2003 14:01 Uhr, David H. Bailey wrote
Hands up, anybody who has ever owned copy-protected software (games
included) where the company has gone out of business and the copy
protection has gotten lost or destroyed?
Loads, actually. And even the best legal support will not change that.
Geez...you mean we've gone all the way to human liberties in this
discussion?? That good ole MM could be part of a scheme by which our freedom
might slowly erode without our knowing it? A music notation software
company?? Give me a break, please.
Since we know that some of the good folks at MM
On 09.08.2003 2:31 Uhr, Craig Parmerlee wrote
Come on Tobias, surely you are not assuming that MakeMusic is free from any
dangers of bankruptcy, corruption, commercial interests?... never ever to go
bust? Look at what happened to Opcode...
Well that is the point, isn't it? They are putting
None of us on this list have advocated the piracy of IP nor have we
advocated a freeloader mentality.
And I do gripe about the Iraq war, and not surprisingly these days in
the U.S., I often get the same sort of argument in favor of the Iraq war
that you give in favor of copy protection for
At 11:36 PM 8/8/2003 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 08.08.2003 18:59 Uhr, Tobias Giesen wrote
I have had personal (albeit mostly via email) contact with many Coda
employees, and I am deeply convinced that if there is one company that you
can trust, it's them.
Many Coda employees,
