Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 06/08/12 04:04, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> It is easy to see how these events could  help lilypond long-term, but
> it's also easy for any response from us to be interpreted negatively.
> Let the Sibelius users have their personal moment of pain/mourning; if
> they need open-source music notation, they will certainly be able to
> find us without our help.

I was not actually thinking primarily of bombarding mourning Sibelius users with 
publicity, which would clearly be unwelcome (neither piece of software supplies, 
yet, what Sibelius supplies).

Rather, I was thinking of LP and MuseScore approaching educational institutions 
and possibly also senior former members of Sibelius UK to try and develop 
something around the combination of (i) the spending that would otherwise have 
gone on Sibelius licence fees, (ii) the increasing drive for open source 
software in education, (iii) the drive for computer science education.

The opportunity here isn't primarily to get people using some particular piece 
of software but rather to get people to buy into a new way of funding and 
developing the cutting edge of music notation technology.