[linux-audio-user] NoteEdit 2.3.4

[Chris Cannam]

On Tuesday 23 Dec 2003 7:48 am, Joerg Anders wrote:
> Leon Vinken <leon.vinken at hetnet.nl> contacted you

About the problems mentioned in your previous release note, yes; not 
the point about accidentals in your latest one.  That's not a problem 
-- he has no obligation to do that, and it was nice of him to report 
the previous batch of bugs.  But he's not the one sending out your 
release note.

> Perhaps it helps if I say: I always made lists of problems with
> relevant software.

I also have no problem with your telling your users that certain 
things won't work.  But you could so easily have resolved the problem 
and thus made _your_ program more useful to _your_ users by also 
notifying us about it and encouraging us to fix it.  It's not very 
useful to see interoperability as a contest.

And no, I wouldn't be bothering to comment at all, if it weren't the 
second time in a row you'd done this, or if you'd let us know that 
you were seeing this particular problem, or if you'd placed the 
information as a warning in the README or FAQ for NoteEdit rather 
than choosing to proclaim it to as many different mailing lists and 
Usenet groups as you thought were even vaguely relevant, or if the 
information you gave were not actually somewhat misleading.  Any one 
of those would have done.  I don't think I'm asking for any more than 
common courtesy here.

Anyway, enough of this unseasonal stuff.  I appreciate that you 
probably just saw it as the most practical way to get the information 
across.


Chris