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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Hammar Aspö Data k...@aspodata.se Lilla Aspö 148 Networks S-742 94 Östhammar +46 173 140 57 Computers Sweden +46 70 511 97 84 Consulting ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
