d. collins wrote:
Well, this is where I completely disagree with you. If all your worried about is printing your files, why don't you simply back them up as PDFs?
I already make pdfs of everything. I also print multiple copies of everything, date them, and put them in archive.
Geeze the way things are going in the world I may have to gather wood to burn for cooking and heating, buy a horse to take me around, plant my own garden and keep a root cellar, etc. Not that I think those things are imminent or inevitable, but if the time comes I have to re-enter a score in different software, I can do that. And if I have to recopy music by hand to make changes... well, when I started writing music in my teens, that was my ONLY choice. And when I think of extracting parts by hand (which I did for decades) it makes me very patient with the quirks of part extraction in Finale.
I agree with those who are gloomy about the digital possibilities, but I'm prepared. I'm just sayin'...
Backup, backup, backup. Redundency is good enough for flight systems, and it's good enough for me.
In spite of which, I agree that tethered software is what my son, the computer genius, calls "customer abuse". In fact, I believe in open source software, and I hope it is the wave of the future. But that's another book.
Linda Worsley
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