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On 08/04/2011 04:41 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
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type="cite">On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:25 AM, David Baron <span
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href="mailto:d_baron@012.net.il">d_baron@012.net.il</a>></span>
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My 2 cents:<br>
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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>
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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
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://vimeo.com/16894001/">http://vimeo.com/16894001/</a>
of how it works)<br>
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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>
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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>
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Basically NtED was/is the most promising GUI notation editor for me.
Better then MuseScore (faster, lighter imo). But you need more for
an open source project to be successful. One-man-shows (I don't mean
that disrespectful) are, most of the time, less sustainable then
projects which are able to form a nice community of users and
developers around it. MuseScore is doing a excellent job on that
point and the project gives you a lot of features now. The project
seems to have a lot of support from different kind of people, which
gives me, as a user, the confidence that it will useful for me in
the coming years. Personally I rather learn to use a piece of
software if the chances are low that is will stop/die soon...<br>
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Regards,<br>
\r<br>
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