At first glance, this stuff looks like a long-winded ode to a fancy synthesizer that might have been. Look closely at what is at stake, and who the players are.

Unless you never, ever, intend to use any computer-based composition or recording systems, or work with anyone who does, you have a very real intersest in these issues, and their outcome. As is shown in this summary, any company that deals with Gibson, is putting itself at risk. And buying Gibson guitars and other products adds money to that "technohick's" warchest.

I know that The Biz is populated, and run by, unsavoury individuals at a lot of levels. Everybody has their own choices to make about how they balance commerce, creativity, and ethos. I think I made my own choice on the day, back in 1986, that I bought a Yamaha SBG 1000 instead of a Gibson Les Paul Custom for twice the price.