Re: JEWISH-MUSIC digest 2495

[Fred Blumenthal <xd2fabl...>]

I get the NewsGroup in digest form, and so have comments on several 
things.
I wonder if it's possible to select and copy in one program (Finale and 
Sibelius) and paste into the other.  It would require a computer with both 
programs, so the question is probably academic.  And I'm now up to Finale 
2003, but haven't been successful at scanning anything yet.  Slow learning 
curve, maybe.
One can buy a PC from any number of manufacturers, so the objection to 
Windows is the monopoly.  One can't buy a compatible operating system from 
anybody else.  Developments in the U.S. courts could affect this 
situation, but, at risk of waxing political, it's contrary to the current 
trend in the U.S. to curtail anything big business wants to do.  Even go 
to war.
As a Jew, the threatened boycott of Israeli musicians in Britain strikes 
me as anti-Semitism.  But I also question its effectiveness.  In the U.S. 
the preponderance of the audience at performances of Jewish or Israeli 
music is Jewish and people sympathetic to Jews.  Maybe this is somewhat 
less the case in Britain, but for the boycott to work it would need to be 
directed at people sympathetic to Jewish music but unsympathetic to Jews. 
It's unusual for me to be unsympathetic with a labor union, but I hope 
everybody in question is independent enough of union power to employ their 
own consciences.
There's still an extraordinary amount of superfluous HTML in these 
messages, and it makes the NewsGroup really hard to read.  Let's all 
remember to not include graphics or attachments.  This directly impacts 
the readability of our messages.

Fred Blumenthal
xd2fabl (at) us(dot)ibm(dot)com