On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:25 AM, David Baron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:d_baron@012.net.il">d_baron@012.net.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
My 2 cents:<br>
<br>
I use software that does the job. OpenSource is not necessarly free, just<br>
means one can get the sources and compile it, twiddle the code, if one so<br>
chooses. Not all musicians can or want to bother with this. One thing is that<br>
opensource authors are much more accessible and listen to suggestions. This<br>
has made nted into quite an effective scoring package. Put down top bucks for<br>
Sibelius, great program but you buy the package, that's it.<br></blockquote><div><br>I guess I can say that nted has changed my life quite significantly.<br>I have been a hobbyist pianist and professionally a teacher of computer science/programing. Suddenly I am a teacher of singing mostly teaching people who never imagined they could read staff notation. (Heres an example: <a href="http://vimeo.com/16894001/">http://vimeo.com/16894001/</a> of how it works)<br>
<br>So much for the good side.<br><br>But of late nted keeps crashing/erroring. My recent questions on the nted list have gone unanswered. Am I grumbling? Well not really. Joerg Anders has done a superb job of making nted and like all he must have a life outside that also. But realistically I would like to know whether development has died and it would be best for me to cut my losses (about a hundred hours spent typing in scores) and move to something else.<br>
<br>On a related note because my ubuntu laptop runs nted it cannot run pulseaudio. Because it cannot run pulseaudio no other audio works.<br>If we are talking of the state of linux audio maybe a small mention of the pulseaudio saga would not be out of place?<br>
</div><br></div>I could go on but this is a long enough rant :-)<br><br>My main point is that this discussion seems to separate politics/sociology from technical issues. The reality is in-between: I am able to do things thanks to linux and free software that I could/would not otherwise have imagined. But things are very far from 'just working'.<br>
Others may not have such a high 'needs-tweaking' threshold.<br><br>Rusi <br>