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From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: DMCS & MIDI guru problem
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Date: 8 Mar 90 20:26:08 GMT
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In article <1710@dsac.dla.mil> nfs1675@dsac.dla.mil (Michael Figg) writes:
>It also seems like EA, in the case of DMCS, is getting in the habit of telling
>different people different stories about the program. Good example is 
>apparently telling a few people that they have no plans for DMCS in their
>future, while asking for input on GEnie about a planned new release.

I also tested DMCS on 1.3.2 and didn't have any problems. 

As for the two faced nature of EA, it helps if you understand how they
do business. EA is a _distributor_ and don't really do all that much
development in house (except for things like DPaint because they use
that for helping the artists). Instead, they have these folks on staff
they call producers, who get contacted by a programmer or small software
shop (the artist) and they work with the artist to turn their fledgling
idea into a full blown program. Now the artist doesn't work for EA, they
just get a contract for some royalties on the sale of their program.

Anyway, EA as a company may have no further plans for DMCS and they will
tell you that in all truthfulness. However, the artists who originally
*wrote* DMCS may have big plans for it and be out soliciting input on
how to improve it. Both may represent themselves as the "source" for
DMCS, only the "artists" have the power to change it and only EA has
the power to distribute it. If the artists do improve it and convince
a producer at EA that it is worth sending out to everyone then "EA"
will promote it like it was there idea all along to upgrade it.


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