On 12/20/2011 11:08 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: > On Dec 20, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote: > >> About a month ago, they acquired Recordare and the MusicXML technology, >> and made the Dolet plug-ins free for everyone. > > Whoa, I missed that news. > > Congratulations, Michael. (Or at least I think it's congratulations. This is > a good thing, right?) >
As long as they live up to the hype that surrounded the announcement, about keeping the MusicXML development alive and available to all the other software developers who want to include it in their products. Personally I always get scared when a company like MakeMusic purchases what is becoming an industry-wide utility such as MusicXML because even though currently it will remain available, what's to prevent some future CEO (and MakeMusic has had quite a few over the years I've been using Finale) from clamping down and either refusing to renew the agreements with the other developers or simply raising the licensing fees so high that other developers decide not to keep including MusicXML capability. But then the conspiracy-theorist in me always sees the dark side to such mergers. On the other hand it does show that the current CEO of MakeMusic has some vision for the company which seems to have been lacking for the past few years and these moves may be just the thing which improves MakeMusic's financial standing and placement in the industry. Only time will tell if these are good or bad things. One thing's for certain, though, it certainly does change the playing field! -- David H. Bailey [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
