[LAU] Some disturbing news

[David W. Jones]

On June 3, 2018 8:57:49 AM HST, Will Godfrey <willgodfrey at musically.me.uk> wrote:
> 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  
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >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'

Checked their site. Couldn't find any system requirements. Price is very high.

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