dead kore...

[Tony Scharf]

This guy puts it very well:

http://stretta.blogspot.com/2009/02/stack-of-dependencies.html

Tony

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com> wrote:
> Op 10-6-2011 16:06, Jonny Stutters schreef:
>
>> On 10 Jun 2011, at 06:09, Peter Korsten wrote:
>>
>>> See, this is why I don't trust software and especially not hardware that
>>> is integrated with software. If any of the mix somehow drops away or is
>>> no longer supported (computer hardware, computer OS, or software) you're
>>> left with a bookend.
>>
>> You could apply that worry to pretty much anything that's not free/open source.  On the other hand if you think of a laptop running kore as pretty much a hardware synth then it's probably got a good 5 years left in it without any support from NI.  I find it hard to believe that many kore users have exhausted all the options of the system as it stands.
>
> Yeah, but my synths are from the late 90s. The maintenance that was
> required so far was changing the backup battery in both. And I'm sure
> that around 2020 to 2025, when the batteries run empty again, they will
> still work as well as they do today.
>
> - Peter
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