On 9 Mar 2005 at 20:30, Simon Troup wrote: > > > > I hope Coda/MM will prepare for their users' needs in those last > > > > hours, should the time come sooner rather than later. > > > > > > Did I miss something? Have you become the Nostradamus of the list > > > or is this just speculation? > > > > Would you advise a parent who supports a family of 6 to only > > consider purchasing life insurance the day before he or she dies? > > > > The whole point of this is that it has to be in place *when the > > company is a going concern* or it's of no value when they go down > > the tubes. > > David, no need to educate me on life insurance, it's Dennis and his > "sooner rather than later" and "the day they're no longer around to > give out install keys" talk, there's never an "if" in there.
You think MM will survive forever? I've thought for years that the only software that is guaranteed to survive hundreds of years is Microsoft (that's proven by all the software and security failures that we see regularly in Star Trek episodes). I don't see how MM can survive with its current notation package in the face of the Sibelius onslaught. It's clearly a VHS/Betamax situation, and Sibelius is outmarketing MM. > My expectation is that there are enough punters in the market place > for the two current big players, I'm wondering if Dennis thinks we're > all on some kind of precipice. Would you *object* if MM set up a key escrow? If not, why argue against it? -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
