Good riddance OMS! It's about time it died. MIDI SLUSH PROCESSOR. -george Blue Rhythmic Hand wrote: > > From: Blue Rhythmic Hand <dreamquake@...> > > >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