Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite

[Karl Hammar]

Michael Good:
...
> LilyPond may be free software, but it has more lock-in than nearly any 
> current 
> commercial music notation product.
...

You might be able to claim that and get away with it, but look at [1]:

 In economics, vendor lock-in, also known as proprietary lock-in,
 or customer lock-in, makes a customer dependent on a vendor for
 products and services, unable to use another vendor without
 substantial switching costs. Lock-in costs which create barriers to
 market entry may result in antitrust action against a monopoly.

Since with lilypond, there is no vendor and no services, there are
no lock-in possible.

On the technical side, lilypond has no lock-in since there are no
technical, or documentation or whatever barriers set up by the
lilypond community, to convert a lilypond input file to whatever you
wish.

Regards,
/Karl

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in

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