On 10 Mar 2005 at 18:06, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > Don't get me wrong, I don't like the idea of copyprotection in the > first place. However, I have to agree with others that the escrow > system is something no software company with any sense in their brains > will ever agree to.
I don't see the logic there. Dennis said in his long message that one of the problems of the authentication scheme is that all the benefit goes to MakeMusic and all of the headaches to the legitimate, licensed users. Why would a well-intentioned company be uninterested in remedying that imbalance? Secondly, this kind of thing is much more important for small, niche software markets where the companies creating the software are already in a precarious position (Coda/MakeMusic has always seemed to me to be on the brink of bankruptcy, based on all the financials I've ever seen) than it is for large companies in mainstream markets. By implementing key escrow, MM would be encouraging long-term commitment to its products, because the viability of the manufacturer becomes less of a worry. It would also be an advantage over Sibelius! [] > The idea of asking other people not to upgrade is ridiculous. It's > like not filling petrol to boycott oil companies. You are hurting > yourself if anyone. Well, I will say this: a boycott is of no value if you don't tell the company you're boycotting. It would do no good for me to tell MM that I'm boycotting them, as I wouldn't have bought either of the last two versions of Finale, anyway (I'm not a knee-jerk upgrader). But sometime in the next 2 or 3 versions we will get to the point where I would normally upgrade (when the accumulated improvements become significant enough to attract my $$$) but will choose not to. At that point, I will inform MM that I'm not upgrading because of the lack of key escrow. But I'm not the kind of Finale user who has any value in a boycott. It's the people who make their living with Finale and who are basically forced to upgrade every year who are the ones who would have value in withholding their upgrade $$$. But it seems to me from what's been said on this list that most of those are sheep who are meekly accept what's shoved down their throats and haven't the backbone to give up short-term satisfaction in order to accomplish crucial long-term goals. -- 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
