Open letter to all the wishful thinkers...
You think they owe us 'anything'...?
That's an easy answer.
But who really knows 'what' they're doing, what their plan is.
'At this time'...the servers are still up.
But that was when they stated 'at this time'...when...Wednesday?
As you read this, 'right now' is not when 'at this time' was.
'At this time' was 'then'...this is now.
You may not even get to read this.
They've made a few things absolutely clear. No refunds...even for those who had their monthly fees stolen from them AFTER announcing shut down.
Surprised? No me. Not now.
After what they've done, nothing will surprise me.
I'm not going to 'guess' at what they might be doing. I've read enough 'guessing' since day one to realize...no one has a clue, really.
No one knows but the guy who holds the keys to the door.
So if you're still gonna cross your fingers and HOPE, go right ahead.
Their track record should be enough of a red flag to show...you're not gonna see squat from Givsom.
If I WERE to make a guess as to what they're up to, I'd say they're sweeping the floors, handing out the last of the paychecks and wrapping it up.
Theyve known our issues, even if they didn't hear it from us.
Cakewalk 'higher-ups' must surely have brought the authorization/reinstall issue to Gibson's attention, straight away. It must've been one of the first things mentioned, and surely discussed prior to giving US notice. Even faithfu-to-us cakewalk employees must've said something before they walked out the door. Their voices and the authorization notion most certainly was flatly ignored, ling ago...period.
THAT subject (specifically) being withheld from the recent post, speaks volumes...
...to me, anyway.
So why not just stop all the...
'I bet/think/hope/wonder [if] they're gonna...' frivolity.
We're small potatoes to them. They'll pull the plug eventually, and sooner than you think, I have no doubt.
They pulled the trick with the lifetime updates, we all know that.
It surely must've been a sneaky last ditch effort.
They had to be in so deep that...throwing all their eggs in one basket (lifetime updates)...
Companies hire smart people to come up with ideas to help or save their company(s).
There is no way any CEO did not know that they were cutting their hand off to spite their face. The writing was on the wall.
No one in their right mind would've said "Hey, let's offer lifetime warrantees, it will make us lot of extra money".
'Saving the company' could not have even been on the list.
Their debt had to be so much greater than ANY 'lifetime' offer could possibly pull them out from under.
They knew all along we would never see anything of real value come from purchasing the L.U.
So...Cakewalk surely was already failing, (or rather, Gibson was failing Cakewalk) when this question HAD TO HAVE COME UP...'how can we leverage this in our favor, the best way possible before we close down?"
"Let's offer lifetime updates. That would get a good deal of immediate cash flow before we have to shut down".
Guess what?
It worked.
Gibson assumes we're the little guy with no collective power, so they have no interest in our issues.
Keeping the servers up is only costing them more money every day, with no money coming in to even cover the electric bill for those servers.
They've done enough damage to think that keeping the servers running will help fix the hurt.
{Keeping the servers running = a plausible bandaid...a "sorry about that" gesture...like, "Sorry folks, we didn't know it was going to happen, either...Here...feed off the server a while...on the house"...}
They have what they feel are bigger issues...their creditors. There's a 'real face' on the creditors that they can't simply close the door on, compared to us. We could go banging on the door and they have no obligation to even look out the window at us.
So long as we just kick and cry, they can simply turn a deaf ear.
There's a 100% chance they'll have to face the creditors.
The chance of a class action suit...(based on (how many(?)) lifetime members who were duped)...that chance is so small...why bother with us... (in their eyes).
I'd like to see the Vegas odds on the Sonar servers staying up for '×' days...or that Gibson will have a heart and offer us at least an authorization code.
As I mentioned before...to do ANYTHING for the cakewalk customer will only cost them more money, when there's none coming in to support that cause.
Personally, I would be willing to pay 'something' to cover the cost for them to get someone to work a code release.
IF their were enough offerings, and IF someone there would bother to listen. ..they might understand that we actually want to be the ones paying for THAT SERVICE. Heck, with enough of us offering up $20 bucks or so, I'm sure it would amount to thousands on their end...just to get someone to write us a code.
OR... aren't their now many ex-employees who could do that on their own?...who honestly feel and agree that we were taken to the cleaners?
Yeah, piracy...I know...
...but look at it this way...
If THAT were to happen...just the off-handed hacking of the reauthorization code so we got what we felt was rightfully ours... ..something we paid for in good faith...AND IF Gibson came after us because of it...then they'd actually be giving us our day in court. THAT is where our voices could be heard. We're not trying to download a movie we have no intention of paying for. We are the ones who have been on the up and up. Our funds have been readily available for the taking, all along...we paid faithfully.
Cutting into the code could/might be the only way we could have our day in court.
Hey, we don't want to do it...we're begging for a smidgen of acknowledgement for the years so many of you have invested in this company.
You guys did a great job at keeping Cakewalk alive.
Just my two synths
Joni