Re: status of mutopia project

[steve]

     Unfortunately, there is an obvious error in Bach Goldberg
Aria bar 18 that I have seen propagated to several other versions
that have used this as source. Not good.

   -steve

> 2011/4/8 Francisco Vila <address@hidden>
>>
>> 2011/4/8 steve <address@hidden>:
>> > Howdy!
>> >
>> > Â  Hope this isn't too OT, but can't get any info anywhere else..
>> >
>> > Â  What is the status of the mutopiaproject http://mutopiaproject.org
>> ??
>> >
>> > Â  I have discovered errors in goldberg aria, reported them to
>> > all contacts, even added corrected source files. Also just
>> > recently tried to subscribe to mailing list at mutopiaproject and
>> > the subscription request(s) bounced!! Â This has been going on
>> > for at least a year. No corrections, no acknowledgement, no contact
>> > at all??
>> >
>> > Â  Â Is this project dead?
>>
>> Sadly yes it is, in practice. Â Latest updates are dec 2010 (four
>> posts). Any posts previous to those 4 are a year old. Â I'd love that
>> Petrucci Music Library http://imslp.org/wiki/ supported maintaining of
>> source lilypond files in the same site. Â Sceaux and others just link
>> to their own sites for sources.
>
> At least we can be thankful that the project website is still available...
>
>> Maybe it is a good thing that freely available scores mix scanned and
>> typeset documents whatever their origin or the software used; but no
>> doubt that completely free scores are only possible if you have the
>> source _and_ the typesetting engine is free as in freedom (i.e. Finale
>> documents are useless for me for a triple reason: I need a costly
>> software to see them, even if a viewer is available at zero cost I
>> still can not hack the score, and even if I could, I am not free
>> because that viewer is prorietary software).
>
> Any Linux user has at least one more reason - finale doesn't run on
> Linux...
>
> cheers,
> Janek
>