On around 11002 20:52, Doug Auwarter said something like:
>Due to the way responding to this list/serve works, I've been unwittingly
>engaging in a private debate with you over this, which was not my intent. I
>prefer the large forum where others may jump in and add their thoughts.
So I take the liberty of posting to the list.
>It seems to me you're saying that CP = success while lack of CP =
>failure.
I never said that at all.
I'm looking for a model you can take to the Benn brothers (or anyone else
using CP) and say "See! Froombar Music Software dropped copy protection
on all their products 18 years ago, and they're doing great!"
Until you can demonstrate to management that non-protected software can
thrive in the music software market, management is not likely to drop CP.
Even one working example is not going to convince a company to drop CP:
the music software industry is pretty much locked into a vicious circle
where [almost] everyone uses CP, so no one else is prepared to take the
risk of dropping it.[*]
Don't forget, we're talking music software, not business software like
word processing. Business market is completely different ball game. And
lawdie, it took them long enough for business software to drop CP.
Cheers,
Peter
PS & [*]: Sort of like the way most of the computer industry is locked
into one particular OS--no matter if it's good, bad, or
indifferent--because it's what "everybody else uses."
Ours is not to question why,
Ours is but to do and die.
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