Re: Lilypond lobbying?

[Joseph Wakeling]

On 08/18/2011 12:01 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> The rules state that one can only use Sibelius or Finale.  Thinking that
> this was perhaps an oversight, I contacted the administrator to see if I
> could use Lilypond, who replied:

Hmmm.  It can be dangerous asking about random software they have never
heard of (obviously they have staff who can use Sibelius or Finale; they
surely don't have staff who can use Lilypond) but what I'm curious about
is why they won't accept merely a PDF.

Do they have any word on that?

> I found this rather bizarre, making me think that:
> 
> (a) Sibelius and Finale are paying competitions to exclude other
> software (unlikely)
> (b) People are writing nonsensical rules (likely)

Bear in mind that one thing they may get from Finale/Sibelius is
_playback_, potentially using very high-quality sampled sounds.  But I
agree it's most likely stupidity rather than need.

I would want to ask them why they need the Finale/Sibelius files at all
and why the PDF copies they also ask for will not suffice.