On 2012-08-06 04:04, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
It is worth reminding that by providing high-quality notation tools
for free, both Musescore and LilyPond have been a contributing factor
in both Sibelius' and Finale (see
http://www.makemusic.com/Pressroom/Default.aspx?pid=555) current
problems
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 agree. As with other software, some Sibelius users may feel happier
paying inaccessible developers and their managers, directors,
shareholders, etc, for closed-source software which stores their work in
non-human-readable, undocumented binary formats. The rest can easily
find the LilyPond software, website, manuals, snippets and mailing lists.
It would be nice if someone from the sibelius team came out and gave
some hints about how the .sib format is structured. We could be of
help by rescuing the years of work many users have stashed away as
.sib files.
That may be a while off yet. According to Wikipedia "A Facebook pressure
group has been formed to protest against the closure of the London
office. A website dedicated to encouraging Avid to sell Sibelius to
ensure its continued development is now live."
The latter claims that Avid intends to offshore further coding work to
Ukraine.
(I had a brief look at the file format years ago; the problem is that
they run some sort of compression scheme over their data)
Was the compression recognisable?
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