And has anyone noticed how the "This is not official from Emagic" falls away when negative reports are made, but come screaming out of Germany when anyone reports a positive rumor? How odd... And how very very disappointing. cheers, Bill Felton Gryfon Electronic Music Studio www.gryfon.com At 08:24 AM 1/31/00 -0800, you wrote: >From: David Johnson <djohnson@...> > >I must respectfully disagree Markus. > >Free software is the rage these days. IE5 is free. Is that dead? Linux is free. >Is that dead? > >Be is an operating software that has to compete against linux and windows (the >cost of which is often hidden in the price of a pc.) They aim to make money in >a fashion similar to Redhat. (Seen their market cap lately?) > >No. Giving Be away is a method of expanding their market and improving their >viability. > >Assuming release 5 of BeOS features multinode support, why would a free BeOS be >any less viable for the purposes of musicians than a $49 version? > >Markus Fritze wrote: > >> From: Markus Fritze <mfritze@...> >> >> on 31.01.2000 3:00, Ben Duke at benkri@... wrote: >> >> > For what its worth, i too would like to put my vote in for this >> > operating system. >> >> Stop this! You simply can't "vote" here... >> >> If Be stops the support for future versions of BeOS then Logic Be is DEAD! >> And at the moment everything looks like this is the direction! New Focus on >> Stinger (internet based BeOS, instead on the "Media OS" - and this directly >> _before_ the NAMM and Frankfurt!), a free BeOS 5 (free always means: no >> support; and as it also seems: even no support for _developers_!), etc. >> >> MMM >> -- >> Markus Fritze >> Emagic Soft- und Hardware GmbH <http://www.emagic.de>; >> Chief Developer New Technology Integration, MacOS >> >> Unsubscribe: mail to logic-users-unsubscribe@onelist.com > > >Unsubscribe: mail to logic-users-unsubscribe@onelist.com > > >