>From the DAW-MAC list, with permission: From: Dave Merrill <merrill@...> Subject: OMS Petition IMPORTANT Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 21:32:45 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed As you may already know, Gibson Guitars has purchased Opcode Systems, the originators of OMS, the de facto standard for MIDI on the Macintosh platform. As things stand now, Gibson has shut down Opcode's software development operations, and by doing so has blocked OMS development. Soon, operating system evolution and other factors will make the existing versions of OMS unworkable for many users. Please check out the information at the link below, and consider joining in a petition to have Gibson release OMS as an open-source project. To quote from the petition, OMS "is much more valuable to the industry as a whole than to any one company." http://sonosphere.dyndns.org/Petition Feel free to forward this letter to anyone you think might be interested. Thank you, and please excuse the interruption of your regularly scheduled programming (:-) Dave Merrill