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At 9:36 AM -0800 11/5/99, Tom Ritchford wrote: >>Oh yeah. Sure, let's boycott Gibson, and Fender too, while we're at it: >I >>have a guitar that has had some loose machine heads. > >Whoops, I should have put this into context. > >Gibson recently bought Opcode Systems and is apparently using >cruel legal tactics to completely dismantle the system. [snip] >Here's a URL with more information: > ><http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/6454/> My interpretation of the URL you posted is: Gibson bought into Opcode last year when opcode was going out of business. They bought it cheap as a turnaround investment, since opcode managment promised they could make the company profitable again in a year. Gibson invested a few million dollars, gave them a year to turn things around. One year passed, Opcode mgt had clearly failed to get the company profitable again, Gibson pulled the plug. Shareholder lawsuits result, as they always do. This happens EVERY DAY in every industry. (check your paper to see what happened to packard-bell a couple of days ago, same story.) I still don't get why opcode fans are peeved at Gibson, when opcode was going out of business anyway. Are you pissed that Gibson didn't want to keep sinking money in a losing operation? Doesn't seem like such a crime to me. If Gibson never got involved at all, opcode would still be gone, so what's the point? Maybe y'all should have organized a campaign six months ago to buy more opcode software, then opcode might still be around and I wouldn't be getting all these whining conspiracy-theorist emails forwarded to me. >Since I make heavy use of Opcode's products, I'm pretty >upset along with other people on the Opcode mailing list. >So we are starting a Boycott Gibson campaign. I'm sure that legions of Les Paul enthusiasts throughout the world are rising up and totally failing to care. (in fact, I would guess that a lot of them would be glad that a computer music company bit the dust....we're talking about guitarists here...;-) And since your little boycott idea threatens Matthias and I in developing new echoplex software, and may even jeopardize future echoplex production (although I doubt it), some people here aren't likely to be real supportive either. After all, opcode was not willing to invest in real-time loop products (before or after Gibson), Gibson has invested a lot in this area and stuck with it for years. ...and according to Keyboard this month, Logic, Cubase, and MOTU are better than vision. :-) kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ |