If a product made use of an authentication scheme such as that used by MakeMusic!, and failed to provide public maps of the formats of data files inhibiting or preventing development of other packages which might read and write data files of that same format thus making it difficult or was impossible for a user to access the data in a file without that product any other product, whether provided by the vendor of the original or not.
Since MakeMusic! provides publicly the structure of the data files created with Finale, and also provides a free package that will read and print those files, I submit that Finale is most emphatically not victimware.
BTW, I will not, this or any other year, be joining in a boycott of the upgrade of MakeMusic.
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