![]() What does any of this have to do with Sibelius? Well, in 2006, Sibelius Software was bought by Avid Technology, Inc., and despite remaining a very successful business, in July 2012 Avid laid off the entire Sibelius development team, effectively condemning the product to rapid decline and a very uncertain future. The vast majority of the largest companies in the world all run Free Software in their datacentres around the world for example, every time you access Google or Facebook you are (indirectly) using Free Software. You may have never heard of Free Software, but if you own an Android phone or a “broadband” router, or have ever used the Firefox browser or Google Chrome, you have already used it. A powerful movement based on Free Software was born in the early eighties to free computer users from this lock-in, and is now used on billions of devices world-wide. In the IT industry, this is a well-known phenomenon called vendor lock-in. ![]() For many of the more experienced customers in the technology industry who have already been burned in the past, a heavy reliance on a single technology is enough to trigger alarm bells – what if the company providing that technology goes bust, or decides to change direction and cease work on it, or simply does an awful job (*cough* Microsoft *cough*) of maintaining and supporting that technology? Then you’re up a certain creek without the proverbial paddle. In light of recent news regarding music notation software, I would add with some disappointment and frustration that those who choose to ignore the past are also condemned to repeat it.įor those of you who don’t already know, Sibelius is a proprietary software product for music notation which has for many years been one of the most popular choices for professional musicians and composers. ![]() UPDATE : Daniel has replied to this post, and I have replied to his reply.Īs George Santayana famously said, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.
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