[LAU] Some disturbing news

[Will Godfrey]

On Sun, 03 Jun 2018 19:30:18 +0100
Chris Cannam <cannam at all-day-breakfast.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 3 Jun 2018, at 18:45, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Well, one example in the music business is the notation program Sibelius
>> letting itself be acquired by Avid.  Then Avid got into liquidity
>> problems and decided to bleed Sibelius dry for what it's worth, firing
>> all of the British development team  
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>There's an interesting practical (if not moral) sequel to this, in that many of the active Sibelius team were then hired by Steinberg to make a program to replace Sibelius, called Dorico. I don't know how well it's doing commercially, but it's a phenomenally impressive application technically. I can imagine (from the developers' perspective) that being hired to surpass your own work, in a context in which that felt like the just thing to do, could be very motivating.
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>Chris

But will it run on RISC OS?
 - sorry couldn't resist :)

I can see that being given such an opportunity would be fantastic. As they say:
'revenge is a dish best served cold'

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.