>One of the good things about MuseScore is that because it is open >source, any perceived limitation can be addressed. Of course that's >a huge time commitment, so I don't make that comment lightly.
while i support open source wholeheartedly (*), the reality is that it depends on there being ENOUGH goodwill from the RIGHT people... comments i also don't make light-heartedly. check out eudora for a major failure in open source and pd for a major success... open source is fantastic in principle but is no guarantee that the problems WILL be addressed, and more importantly in an orderly and timely fashion. in a sense i'm your opposite, robert, an optimistic pessimist that *believes* everything will fail but who *acts* as if it somehow won't... more impressive i find is notewriter / noteability, but developed by one person assisted by grad students. last i checked there was ONE upgrade but of a level and quality i have *never* seen in other software... as i understand the code was COMPLETELY rewritten to accommodate OSX. hello, finale, are you listening? then there is score... finally on windows (and in 2012 still 1 doc = 1 page... jeezzuzz!!!!!)............. and unless the community gets their shit together the code and programme will die with the owner. *) in one of my other lives i coordinated an entire journal issue on open source for audio application: http://cec.sonus.ca/econtact/11_3 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
