The End of Finale

1 point

a year ago

Some have written here that "no amount of commenting will change" Finale's refusal to release a cloud-based authoriuzation. Really? What is the soruce of that information? Comments - not to mention lawsuits - have changed software developers' policies in the past (see below). Why is the future comment-proof?

A version of Finale should be released where your serial number alone could be used to authorize Finale in perpetuity without internet access.

There's no need to depend on internet access which could be taken away at any point.

Someone made a Change.org petition for Finale to fix this mess:

https://www.change.org/p/urge-makemusic-to-continue-developing-finale-notation-software-or-open-source

A personal note: I have been with Finale since beta testing ver3 in the 90s for its owner, Coda. Very floppy disks for PC as I recall... I have long documented the many errors and unwanted changed importing XML from Finale to Finale creates. Recently some Finale techs have written that they see problems as well. Finale XML to Dorico or Sibelius is not likely better.

What is the cost in time or money hiring others to convert all the thousands of pages of work, or reconstruct them from PDF or MIDI? Layout problems, quirky Finale workarounds that have to be reworked in a new program, and of course RE-PROOFING EVERY PAGE YOU HAVE EVER FINISHED?? In addition, some portion of the 30 years of chops I developed using Finale will be lost.

All for no good reason. Bias' Peak and Opcode's Studio Vision Pro were freed of their copy protection after they were abandoned. I ask MakeMusic for far less - just remove the requirement for Internet authorization and allow serial number only installations. Then all I have to do is maintain the last OS Finale 27.4 runs well on! I can do that!