THE FUTURE OF ELENA DESIGN MODULES DEPENDS ON YOU !
PLEASE SPEND ONE MINUTE TO READ !
Starting from SynthEdit 1.6, Jeff decided to take a very bad and unexpected road: switching from plain legacy .exe format to .appx.
Big corporations like Micro$oft and Apple are pushing hard to turn our personal computers into "large smartphones" and/or "mass-control appliances", where users have less and less freedom, gradually losing control and ownership of the hardware and software they legally bought.
Yes, you got it: SynthEdit is now an app, a fucking app, is bound to Micro$oft $tore and to all related services !!!
This is especially felt by advanced users, who want to be and feel free of having full control on their hw/sw and to install programs (I will never call "programs" applications) to the partition they prefer - hopefully on a dedicated hard-disc partition, since C should just host the Operating System!
And it is especially troublesome for users of de-bloated or steamlined W10/W11 ISOs, like NTLW10 by Elena Design and similar distros (ELENA DESIGN INCLUDED !!!), distros which are spoiled of all bloating and intrusive Micro$oft services and the $tore - thus making impossible to install and run SynthEdit from v1.6 on.
With this move, Jeff is clearly showing his will to align to the corporations' trends, betraying all SynthEdit users who spent money for it, who developed art and precious DSP technology with his product, in many cases dedicating several years of their life.
If you think I am mad, eccentric or too radical on my positions, please consider that Google is trying to do the same on Android smartphones, and a whole community of FOSS developers and advanced users is rebelling !!!
ELENA DESIGN WILL ABANDON EVERY PUBLIC SYNTHEDIT-RELATED PROJECTS IN A MATTER OF ONE OR TWO YEARS (THE TIME ESTIMATED FOR SYNTHEDIT 1.5 TO BECOME OBSOLETE), UNLESS JEFF DECIDES TO MOVE A STEP BACK AND RETURN TO MORE SOBER PATHS, I.E. TO SWITCH BACK AND FOREVER TO PLAIN LEGACY .EXE/.MSI FORMAT FOR SYNTHEDIT 1.6 AND FUTURE VERSIONS, DROPPING ANY DEPENDENCY ON MICRO$OFT $TORE AND RELATED SERVICES.
You are warned. The future of EDM and ESD3 depends entirely on you.
Please take one minute and sign this petition in an attempt to stop the disaster! It won't cost you anything!