To me, this is nothing more than how Harvard and Yale business school and law school graduates are killing music in America.  They started with the record companies.  Those ignorant business school and law school graduates new nothing about what was good music.  They had tin ears, but they knew about money or at least thought that they knew what they though which music would make a profit.  I know for a fact that they had no idea who Mozart, Beethoven, Pat Metheny, Phillip Glass, Yes, Gentle Giant or Spock's Beard were.  What they knew was back then, if they got drunk at a club in New York and got to abuse women, what made their pants want to dance.  They would not know an F sharpe from a G flat.  Yet they got to kill music in America because they got control over the board of directors.  Now their protege's are killing Sonar, because they in their wisdom, after seeing the rage at shows regarding Euro rack, have decided that the best thing to do is to go back to hardware, and produce things that run in 128 mB of memory in a black box, rather than support something that runs on a computer with 128 GB of memory because that is the trend.
 
What nobody has told them yet, is while they are drunk or taking ecstasy at the theater and enjoying life, the film composers who made the music and soundtracks that they so loved while they were hammered were made on computers with  software that they are killing because they are totally ignorant.  They will wake up from their high one day and say to themselves "Why does this music suck?"  Some wise guru may hear them and say to them "It is because you killed all of the cool music tools in your ignorance."
 
I heard this story once.  A comedian was appearing in an oppressed country once.  After the show, a guy says to the comedian  "You are funny as all get out.  Why is there no person in my country that is so funny?"  The comedian says "That is because your government killed all of the funny people."
 
OK, Gibson is not killing musicians, so I am overreacting, but they are killing dreams.  But it is not the original people at Gibson, who may still be there, who are causing this.  Those people are still artists at making Les Pauls.  It is those ignorant people who are Harvard graduates who have control over the Gibson board of directors who are causing this to happen to all of us.
 
As Johnny Carson, portraying Carnac the Magnificent once said, I say to the Gibson board of directors "May the fleas of a thousand camels make a nest in your groin area."

Please Gibson, sell cakewalk Sonar to someone who will keep developing it. It is my program of choice and I will be upset if I cannot continue to use it in future..

This news makes me feel sad, angry, frustrated, and basically I still cannot believe it. How can anyone in their right mind kill software that is so top-of-the-bill, with so much more potential for further development...? I wish Noel Borthwick and everyone else at Cakewalk who put their hearts and souls into Sonar all the luck in the world. It must be heartbreaking for them too