Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

[Jonathan Wilkes]

> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 07:24:06 -0600

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>>  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.
> 
>> From my perspective, the loss of Sibelius is bad for *everyone* with a
> stake in music. I never used Sibelius; I never liked it. But many did,
> and many found their first creative voice through the software. I
> don't think its retraction will leave a void that will simply be
> filled by something else.
> 
> It's a possible sign that music -- the type many of us are involved in
> -- is losing in the greater culture war. It's not "LilyPond vs
> Sibelius vs Finale" but rather "Quality Music vs Cheap 
> Entertainment."

Uncompromising artistic discipline certainly has its pedagogical usefulness,
but when Orwellian concepts begin to creep in-- like a vague war
apparently dragging on for decades yet with heroes in perpetual danger
of defeat-- maybe it's time to come out of the woodshed.

> 
> We're losing.

War is Peace. :)

-Jonathan

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