Klarinet Archive - Posting 000004.txt from 2007/02

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Re: Sibelius
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:11:30 -0500

I advised a Sibelius user the other day that starting with Finale
2003, Sibelius (at the same time) was able to import Finale files
from the 2003 version. Did I have that right? Can later versions of
Sibelius import Finale files?

Thanks,

Oliver

At 11:28 AM 2/1/2007, you wrote:

>Nancy Buckman wrote,
> >Have you ever used Finale? If so, why do you
> >prefer Sibelius?
>
>Unfortunately, my information is obsolete, since I bought the Sibelius
>version I use now in 2002 and haven't looked at the current versions of
>either Sibelius or Finale. I've never used Finale. In 2001, when I first
>looked at both programs in friends' houses, I decided to buy Sibelius
>because I found the Sibelius manual easier to understand, written for
>musicians who don't necessarily know much about computer programming.
>Sorry I can't give a meaningful comparison of current versions of the
>programs, but I'll be interested in what other people say.
>
>I never upgraded after Sibelius 2.1 (they're up to at least 4.1 now)
>because the company re-wrote its mandatory Terms of Agreement into one of
>the worst contracts of adhesion I've ever seen. I think it's just sloppy
>wording, a misguided excursion into jargon, the kind of thing that can
>happen when well-intentioned proprietors let their lawyers go feral.
>However, Sibelius ignored or trivialized my attempts to discuss the
>problem; that contract has not been re-written (I check the site
>periodically); and I've made the common sense decision that I can't afford
>the risks to which those terms would expose me. Therefore, I removed all of
>my music from the Sibelius users' site, stopped participating in the online
>forum and have not taken advantage of upgrades.
>
>In the meantime, the contract question became moot as my 2001 Windows XP
>computer aged. In human years, a six-year-old computer is probably about
>96. It doesn't have the capacity to load and run the much-expanded
>programming to burn CDs and so forth. Maybe someday when I buy a new
>machine, I'll investigate Finale again. However, given the apparent
>determination of the Finn brothers to continue with the present Terms of
>Agreement, I probably won't be doing business with Sibelius again,
>alas--although the version of the program I still use is excellent and I'd
>buy the upgrade in a heartbeat if I thought my computer could run it and if
>the company would revise that damned contract. By the way, I don't answer
>private e-mails about the contract for two reasons: (1) I'm not a lawyer
>and I can't give legal advice (although I did show the contract to an
>attorney, who told me he wouldn't sign it himself). (2) I wouldn't mail
>out information on how to make a bomb, either.
>
>Lelia Loban
>
>
>
>
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