On Sep 30, 2004, at 9:52 AM, John wrote: >> This is too bad, especially because the exclusion seems to be dictated >> not at all by any sort of technical limit, but in order to avoid >> "violation" of sample licenses (such as the VSL). Surely a better >> solution for everyone would be for the licenses to be augmented to >> include uses such as these, rather than ham-stringing creative >> development. (Make the lawyers work for you, instead of crippling our >> tools to bend to them!) > > Excuse me, Paul, > > What do you mean by "violation" ?? It is a clear illegal situation to > allow > EXS to work on multiple computers using the same library. I don't see > enough > residual money due to the illegal copying of my CDROMS already - a > large > corporation like Apple would not dare violate this area of legality and > trust with 3rd party developers such as Ilio and myself, even if it > does > "hurt" users of the larger sampler libraries in the "ease of use" of > these > libraries. > > Long time lurking greets to all and peace to all ;) > > John "Skippy" Lehmkuhl Maybe the license needs to change to allow this kind of Distributed Processing on third party plugs and VSTis. The license is supposed to stop piracy, not hamstring productivity. As has been mentioned, this feature doesn't help nearly as much as it could. Cheers Michael Telle