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Guys, if we really love this company as much as we all say we do, let's show our support by doing everything we can to avoid alienating ANY potential customers



Hmmm.... what is likely to alienate customers more? Allowing musicians (who are deeply affected by this turn of events on both a tactile and emotional level and are deeply emotionally attached to a company who has been supplying our business with quality instruments since before many of us were born) the latitude to express our opinion, or telling those customers "If we don't like what you say we will throw you out of the sandbox?"

The Constitution of my country allows me the right to state my opinion if I don't cross a line and say something bad about anybody's mama. It also allows me to own a gun to protect myself, to vote for my leadership, etc..... If those rights do not cross northern borders, so be it, but with a large American potential customer base, which way is more likely to win friends and influence people? That eye on the business model seems to indicate a little more relaxed posture on forum content would be prudent. Nobody here went off on a wild rant full of expletives and n-bombs. And the discussion has been aimed at what most of us perceive to be wrongdoing against another company we love.

I recommend this product to everybody who will stand still long enough to listen to an example of the end result. I can tell you I have sold at least 4 units for PG Music and will continue to promote it heavily. I myself have just had it since spring. The last song I posted, Snowball's Chance In Hell, is 100% Real Band. The most common comment when I say that is "No way. Even the solos and those fiddle parts that come and go?"

And if you think about what is at the root here, a hard drive is less of an instrument than what Gibson makes, so at the core level, discussion of BIAB is about computer programs. Programs that can be used to make music, for sure, but the discussion is really not about "music".

That is a stretch, but I think it makes my point.

I add my thanks to the moderators who are allowing this discussion to continue.