> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 07:24:06 -0600 > From: Neil Thornock <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, > Lilypond-User > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down > Message-ID: > <caca7e6nnx3wiuiw9jfyiivik_dgomtptayqwt5jlojpaem6...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >> It is easy to see how these events could help lilypond long-term, but >> it's also easy for any response from us to be interpreted negatively. >> Let the Sibelius users have their personal moment of pain/mourning; if >> they need open-source music notation, they will certainly be able to >> find us without our help. > >> From my perspective, the loss of Sibelius is bad for *everyone* with a > stake in music. I never used Sibelius; I never liked it. But many did, > and many found their first creative voice through the software. I > don't think its retraction will leave a void that will simply be > filled by something else. > > It's a possible sign that music -- the type many of us are involved in > -- is losing in the greater culture war. It's not "LilyPond vs > Sibelius vs Finale" but rather "Quality Music vs Cheap > Entertainment."
Uncompromising artistic discipline certainly has its pedagogical usefulness, but when Orwellian concepts begin to creep in-- like a vague war apparently dragging on for decades yet with heroes in perpetual danger of defeat-- maybe it's time to come out of the woodshed. > > We're losing. War is Peace. :) -Jonathan > > -- > Neil Thornock, D.M. > The recent premiere of ...and a bunch of other stuff: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQtvPet3k8c > Assistant Professor of Music > Composition/Theory > Brigham Young University > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > End of lilypond-user Digest, Vol 117, Issue 20 > ********************************************** > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
