But it is truly amazing to watch the victims of said abuse actually justify it and defend their abusers.
As I've said before, my last line of defense is to archive in open formats like PDF. I only wish PDF had been available in 1990. Right now I am having to re-edit a piece from that era because Finale no longer fully supports its own past formats. What current Finale versions offer for Fin2.6.3 files is hardly better than what Sibelius offers.
This is because, while "Makemusic" has technically existed continuously since 1988, it is in fact a completely different company, having gone through at least two complete ownership changes since then. The current company apparently knows almost nothing about the 2.6.3 format. Their Mac support people claim not to be able even to run Fin2.6.3 at all. (Heck, *I* can still do that.) If Finale 2.6.3 had required authentication, I feel virtually certain that the current company either would not or could not provide it now.
-- Robert Patterson
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