Hi Matt: Thanks for the further clarification. I suppose that the simple fact is that the Linuxadio community simply doesn't "number up" enough for Coda to consider us any sort of market. Same old story. Yawn, heavy sigh... But the truth is that I'm not really interested in Finale, I'm interested in libre software, and my concern is for the continued development of NE. It would be nice if someone would step up and take the reins, and as I said earlier, that is my hope now for NE. Would I buy Finale for Linux ? Probably, at least to see what the hubbub is all about. Ditto for Cubase or really any other music app that would run under my favorite OS, but I would want to make an equal or larger contribution to the developers of functionally equivalent libre software. My two drachmas, of course... Best, dp Polashek, Matthew wrote: