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From: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
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Subject: MusicProse and the encouragement of rumourhood.
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Date: 25 Feb 91 18:51:21 GMT
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You know, I've been getting a little weary of seeing the 34th or
35th "me, too. I want MusicProse [at the *student* rate, of course]"
postings. This is largely due to the fact that I don't see that such
a spate of postings would have the slightest chance of convincing the
persons in power [who don't seem to have those net logins] of anything.
The wise soul who passed out the CEO name is much closer to the point
in terms of applying pressure in a position where it might do the most
good. One problem: It's easier to his the "F" key and type "Oh yes."
than to pound out that intelligent and well-reasoned letter that 
changes minds. It remains a point of contention that *any* current
tripwire figure [mega-increase in NeXT sales over X time to markets
which would almost FOR CERTAIN be interested in BUYING a copy of MP
instead of banging bootlegged copies back and forth until Hades finishes
icing over on the top rings] would indeed do the mind-changing, but I
remain resolutely certain that the persons actually making the marketing
decisions have different views of the potential size and nature of the
market than those of us who are NeXT users who'd really LIKE to have
CODA running on our machines.

With that in mind, an interesting thought occurred to me. The last 
issue of NeXTworld had somebody sitting around with their net ears
up doing running tallies of the arguments and so forth raging here.
While I'm uncertain that such a column would continue, it *does*
occur to me that the bandwidth of the "Trade Press" would be an
interesting thing to harness here. So, whoever and whenever and 
however that person may be, listen up:

How'd you like to address something in your next NETcolumn to the
extent of "The news that CODA has indefinitely suspended work on
the NeXT version of MusicProse was met with large scale scorn,
derision and frustration. [Some comments on the company's potential
lack of vision][Comments on the fac that the NeXT environment has
NO players - and thus NO competitors and is thus RIPE for the picking]
[The suggestion that a large user base outside of the traditional kind
of "market research" music software audience is actively interested
in working with whatever programs ARE available][The suggestion that
the traditional user base for Macintosh programs would be inclined
to make the move to NeXT's environment for the DSP stuff as an audio
workstation base.....]

Heck, any one of you NeXTworld weenies is perfectly free to call me
or anyone else on the networld up and interview us out the kazoo.
A number of us are bright, witty raconteurs who would love to have
out Warholian 15 minutes [particularly if it meant that some of the
industry bigwigs who're busy chasing the [urk] IBM market might be
tweaked enough to listen]. Such a discussion would be much more 
interesting than the last account of network traffic I can imagine.
Also, less likely to provoke howls of fury from the poor disenfranchised
masses who have no FTP priviledges and must read of all these wonderful
toys being doled out to the faithful. So, clear this with your
editorial Magus and call me at 608-828-3385 during the day or 608-246-9621
in the evenings.

Perhaps if this stuff appears IN PRINT in a REAL MAGAZINE, it might
make a difference. 

Just a thought. We now return you to the circular pacing which
seems to accompany that order for the 040 upgrade [Not me. If 
LISP goes byebye and since those are bucks for me, I'll opt for
the old tried and true "deferred gratification" route] already in
progress.

Ours longer feeder brave us.
--
I am so lonely for the twentieth century,/for the deeply felt, obscene
graffiti/of armed men and the beautiful bridges/that make them so small and
carry them/into the hearts of cities written like words/across nothing,/the
dense void history became in my beautiful century/gtaylor/608-828-3385