On Sun, 03 Jun 2018 19:30:18 +0100 Chris Cannam <cannam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Sun, 3 Jun 2018, at 18:45, David Kastrup wrote: >> Well, one example in the music business is the notation program Sibelius >> letting itself be acquired by Avid. Then Avid got into liquidity >> problems and decided to bleed Sibelius dry for what it's worth, firing >> all of the British development team > >There's an interesting practical (if not moral) sequel to this, in that many of the active Sibelius team were then hired by Steinberg to make a program to replace Sibelius, called Dorico. I don't know how well it's doing commercially, but it's a phenomenally impressive application technically. I can imagine (from the developers' perspective) that being hired to surpass your own work, in a context in which that felt like the just thing to do, could be very motivating. > > >Chris But will it run on RISC OS? - sorry couldn't resist :) I can see that being given such an opportunity would be fantastic. As they say: 'revenge is a dish best served cold' -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
