--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, Gareth Henderson <gareth@h...> wrote: > Yeah but surely, as you need a copy of Logic to run the Node system at all, > opening the node system up for third party plug ins could only help to sell > more copies of Logic? Of course. > Seems like Apple are just being over paranoid to me. I'm not privvy to the Node programming, of course, but when Apple says "legal issues" I'm sure some of those legal issues *are* technical in nature. For example: PACE protected plug-ins (Waves, Antares, URS, Pluggo, etc). I don't know at what point in their algorithms they access the PACE code, but I'm sure that whenever it is, Nodes would need to be re- programmed to make allowences for that. And keep in mind, lots of other developers have their own proprietary copy protection, so I could imagine that we're talking about a potential nightmare of re-coding to allow for 3rd party copy protection schemes. Or asking 3rd parties to release to Apple a non-copy protected version of their software to be allowed on Nodes...yeah, right. ;) I really don't know what the issues are with allowing AUs on Nodes. I am willing to accept that the issues may not be trivial, that they may actually be serious enough for it to make both legal and technical sense that Nodes had to be released as is. As I said, if there's a will, there's a way, whether it's complex or simple. I hope there is a will. Orren