mosspa

Cactus Music
And I wouldn't fear Gibson shutting this Forum down because we are bashing them, the chance that anyone who works there has ever visited this forum are slim to none. 
And there's a huge possiblity that Gibson doesn't even know this forum exists and it will run on forever with  some accountant paying the annual fee not knowing Gibson no longer supports Cakewalk.  
And we now have other places to go even though I won't move from here until it's dead.

I thought about this from a corporate standpoint, and I agree that if this forum was a line item in a budget at the Gibson level, everything you speculate would probably be true.  However, I assume that the owners of this forum are Cakewalk, and for the bean counters at Gibson, the only thing they probably get to de-fund is the spreadsheet line that reads 'Cakewalk Music Systems'.  One click, and it's dead, I'm afraid.

To add. The cost pf running the forum (hosting, domain name etc.) most likely will not be paid at renewal time.
 
That is for sure a time when the forum will cease to exist. Although it could be sooner than that too.

I don't bash Gibson.
 
I don't own any Gibson products.
 
The only Gibson product I want would be a 1971 EB-3 Bass (Cherry by the way, for those that want to send me one for Christmas ).

Cactus Music
And I wouldn't fear Gibson shutting this Forum down because we are bashing them, the chance that anyone who works there has ever visited this forum are slim to none. 

I was thinking the very same...

I've got a red SG special (the cheap one), serial number 92118563, made in the USA.

AT
Of course, we all should have know that paying in advance is a crap shoot, esp. in software.  We took a chance, and hey, it didn't work out.  Sad but true.  Lifetime updates was too good to be true if you expected to be getting free updates 5 years into the future.  2-3 years was reasonable, considering users would have been ahead of simply paying by the year.  Many paid $150 for about  a year and a half, where Gibson comes out ahead.  But not that much, if you were buying yearly updates.  If you didn't regularly buy each year's "new SONAR," well, you were trying to get up one on Cake and Gibson.

I was one that expected 2, maybe 3, years of updates before they changed the product line / name again. I got 18 months. Not quite what I expected, but I still have a very usable bit of software I am licensed, in perpetuity, to use. It won't really last forever, but it will last me long enough.

I just bought a new Gibson Les Paul Traditional in summer. As soon as I get my boxed version of Cubase Pro I'll be recording a lots of new songs with my beautiful honey burst. Bittersweet.

RexRed
Why not make Cakewalk open source? (just a thought) And... Microsoft is not making much money on Windows so should they stop developing it? No, they were smart and moved into the cloud. I keep my Cakewalk project files in the cloud and pay Microsoft a monthly subscription for that. I like having the Microsoft apps too but I mainly pay the 10 dollars a month to Microsoft for the terabyte of cloud storage... I would much rather rent this cloud space from Cakewalk considering the collaboration possibilities between other Cakewalk users and that these files are directly related to Cakewalk. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater Gibson...

Somewhere, I think in another thread, there was mention that Cakewalk very likely licenses IP from other companies. They cannot make the source code open source if this is true, and I suspect it is. So we are left with what we have. Basically.

synkrotron

Cactus Music
And I wouldn't fear Gibson shutting this Forum down because we are bashing them, the chance that anyone who works there has ever visited this forum are slim to none. 

I was thinking the very same...

You forgot about the ex-Executive Vice President of Gibson!

Jari
I just bought a new Gibson Les Paul Traditional in summer. As soon as I get my boxed version of Cubase Pro I'll be recording a lots of new songs with my beautiful honey burst. Bittersweet.

Nice,
 
Can't beat a nice guitar.
 
As long as you are happy with it that is the main thing.
 

pathos
 
You forgot about the ex-Executive Vice President of Gibson!

I'm sorry but you will have to enlighten me.
 
cheers
 
andy