At 21.29 08/07/04, you wrote: >You could contact Daniel James from the Linux >Consortium, linuxaudio.org, and ask his advice. I'll do it. >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'm sure that a Finale has to be a model for a music editor... >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. I'm completely agree with you >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 believe that application like denemo or noteedit, must grow up!! The base is good, but there isn't any detail, any way for typesetting the score... >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. My 20.00 $ is ready to send!! I'm not joking.. >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. You are right... For myself, I'm contributing to translate and give suggestion to the denemo project. I don't know how many developers knows denemo and how many of them works on it, or are interested in typesetting music editor... Ste Stefano Cardo Debian DeMuDi GNU/Linux User
