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another poorly written and misleading petition. first of all, i would point out that while i strongly support lobbying for causes that affect jane, dick or harry (or myself, for that matter), i find this is another in a long line of wishy-washy, horribly conceived, pathetically constructed and reactionary attempts to stop perhaps impending changes without ever bothering to explain the argumentation. i feel this does more of a disservice to the community it purports to support than it helps. and the flimsy argumentation of this petition will easily be blown off as meaningless by the "power-that-be" whose actions / ideas the author -- and, by extension, the entire body of signatories -- is attempting to persuade. >The world's leading music scoring software <cough cough> >Sibelius... is in crisis: this will be of real concern to all Sibelius users. in what way? what is a "real concern"? >Avid is short of cash and desperately trying to >shore up its liquidity with reckless cost >cutting. in other words, it is making radical changes in the structure to keep the thing afloat? >Sibelius is viable as a standalone company according to whose analysis? there are no financial figures or comments to support this, although it would be entirely in the interest of the author of the petition to do so. >As with ProTools, Avid's strategy is to send the >coding and maintenance work offshore. aaaaaaand protools died when they did this? >This short-term thinking is solely to ease Avid >through its present cash crisis, not in any way >for the benefit of Sibelius users. mmmmmm, if the company survives its supposed economic dires, is this not a benefit to the user base? >In fact it will effectively destroy Sibelius. how? what is this comment based on? >please join us in convincing Avid that it is in >everyone¹s best interests for them to sell >Sibelius. to who? i don't really know how to read these things, but about the link on "Avid is in financial trouble", don't the figures indicate a reduction in debt over 4yrs? that should be a good thing, no? -- if anyone cares, or has perhaps read this far out of boredom, i once had an <ahem> invigorating discussion with someone who insisted i sign a petition but was incapable of answering even the most basic questions about the content of the petition, the issue itself, and certainly never made a convincing argument about why i should even sign it, other than "because it is a good cause". said person eventually got angry and screamed, "well, you don't have to sign the thing if you don't want to," at which point i explained i had actually edited and corrected the text and was one of the first people to sign it, because i understood the point and issues and what was at stake and had made a measured decision to support it. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
