21 Feb
2006
21 Feb
'06
1:04 p.m.
Tim Goetze <tim(a)quitte.de> writes:
[Pete Bessman]
Not mine. It is not like they promised you anything or that they'd be
obliged to help you out. They are not a charity. That's one of the
reasons why using nonfree software is a bad idea. It reduces you to
begging, and that's not a good position to be in, regardless of
whether the person you need to beg from is goodwilled or not. The
price to get the source may be higher: in developers you pay, in work
you invest yourself. But it means that you still have the option to
take your business elsewhere if necessary.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
the salient point is that Chris stipulated that
proprietary software
producers *aren't* evil! The only way they can be evil is if you
stipulate a moral code which dictates as much.
I keep a good 150 or so .arr files around, stemming from the late 80s,
early 90s, back when I used to do MIDI-only work with Cubase on an ST.
A few years ago, I wanted to revisit/-edit my music from that time.
So I turned to Steinberg to help me in decoding the files. The short
version: I asked for file format docs, they said "Buy the latest
Cubase instead", I said "What would I run it on?", they said "Mac or
Win", I said "I own neither and don't plan to", they said "Then
you're
SOL".
I don't know about you, but denying me unfettered access to my very
own data certainly meets my definition of "evil".