Re: Photoscore

[David Kastrup]

Johan Vromans <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:27:05 +0100, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> The point (and a partially understandable one) is that publishers don't
>> want to get prepress files but files they can edit in the future, even
>> if the original person is not available anymore.
>
> Basically they want program sources, and they only understand a single or
> very limited set of programming languages. Yes, this is partially
> understandable. Apparently, music publishing is a different beast than book
> publishing.
>
> Do they realise they are completely at the mercy of their software?
>
> A couple of weeks ago I had a 3D scan of my teeth and the dentist needed to
> reboot his Windows8 system into Windows/XP since the scanning software can
> not run on anything newer. Looking at the other part if this thread, he'd
> better not upgrade to Windows10 then.

He may not get asked.  There are enough sneaky Windows 10 update stories
with monthly "oh, you were annoyed?  Then we won't do it this way next
time" pseudo-excuses from Microsoft.  This is clearly not an accident.

-- 
David Kastrup