--- Rick Henry <rhenry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 19:50:14 +0200, reed wrote > > I think that if some one of you believe that an > open source > > development of Finale has to birh, we have to > write them a lot... > > > > I wrote to: > > > > bwolff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > winsupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > winsupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > winsupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Sending out email after email to different > addresses, all at the same company > really doesn't accomplish anything. > It'll just piss people off. Or provide them with > something to laugh at. You could contact Daniel James from the Linux Consortium, linuxaudio.org, and ask his advice. Despite alot of incredible application development and a healthy number of developers it hasn't been until the last couple months when the total number of linux audio user mailing list subscribers outnumbered the developers. I think you can see some stats on the LAD site. I would guess that despite an OS X port, there is still work to do with porting for Linux and even when that's done, there's maintaining that code base. How many linux Finale users would we have? Maybe a couple dozen. And how many would be required to justify porting Finale? Maybe a couple thousand. I don't know the real numbers, I'm just preparing to make a point. I'd suggest the Linux Audio User community would be better off orgainizing a fund raising activity of some type and using the proceeds as contributions towards existing projects. It certainly isn't beyound me to wish that a company with a high grade product would port to linux. However, my feelings for that have changed. My current position is, fuck them. This our community, let's keep it that way. We need to put leeches on our own hooks. I am prepared to spend $10.00 or $15.00 towards the purchase of something if I know that money will be well spent. If a couple hundred of us do that, we'll make a hell of a contribution to our favorite project. The more I think about giving $500.00 U.S. to a closed project, the more pissed off I get. I'm tell'n ya, I'm turning purple over here. Actually, I just had a breakthrough on the drum kit so I'm not very purple. Daniel James, you care to comment on this? ron "purplish" parker > R. > == > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
