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Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 12:34 am

V0RT3X wrote:Not sure if anyone else gets this, but when I go to the cakewalk store i get a warning.

I get the warning:

"The owner of store.cakewalk.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website".

Probably because they pulled the plug already.

I'm on Linux at the moment so I don't worry too much about it.

dnekm · Post by **dnekm** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 12:58 am

It is either a server hiccup while they are changing some things or they are in the process of stopping selling things....

These things happen. Nothing to be alarmed at. They could also simply need to renew the certificate. But given the recent announcement and the way corporations work.... It could just be one person not talking or listening to another person.

Or they could have truly shut down and are using 3rd parties as a last minute cash grab from folks who do not know.....

An active mind is a wonderful thing.....

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 1:13 am

@ Teksonik, If you're using firefox, you might get such warnings even on casual use sites.
If it gets annoying, there is a workaround :

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.ph ... 074.0.html

Cheers

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 1:32 am

glokraw wrote:Hey Gibson, sell the code to someone who will use it, or open-source the code,
no need for it to die, for some beancounter's 'just because'.
It would be at least a small show of respect for those who spent
hard-earned money, and many hundreds man-hours learning
and using your products. I for one love Dimension Pro, Rapture, and z3ta+,
no need to leave the code in a dumpster somewhere.

Right. While I have no real fear of those instruments just "stopping" any time soon, it's really good will to go open source. I wouldn't hold my breath though.

planetearth · Post by **planetearth** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 1:58 am

V0RT3X wrote:Not sure if anyone else gets this, but when I go to the cakewalk store i get a warning.

Screen Shot 2017-11-22 at 4.11.54 PM.jpg
This is the link https://store.cakewalk.com/

When I view the certificate I get this info.

Screen Shot 2017-11-22 at 4.17.21 PM.jpg

I got a similar notification, but I proceeded anyway. All that's on the "Store" site now is this:

sqigls · Post by **sqigls** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 2:07 am

35% off!!!
Wow, gonna snap me up a bargain!...

https://www.pluginboutique.com/meta_pro ... walk-SONAR

what's support like?

V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 2:13 am

sqigls wrote:35% off!!!
Wow, gonna snap me up a bargain!...

https://www.pluginboutique.com/meta_pro ... walk-SONAR

what's support like?

Kind of sucks though, I was really considering picking up Z3TA+2 again.
https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/ ... 562-Z3TA-2

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 4:31 am

sqigls wrote:what's support like?

Cakewalk's "support" was so bad it might actually be better now that they've gone out of business....

Anyway here's a way to contact Gibson.....if anyone needs to vent.

http://www.gibson.com/Gibson/Talk-2-Us.aspx

sqigls · Post by **sqigls** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 5:21 am

that CEO guy sounds like an absolute C#NT

Nielzie · Post by **Nielzie** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 6:08 am

Shady business, first selling lifetime licenses and then stopping the development a few months later.. Reminds me of that Prodyon guy, although that was a one man company.

ATS · Post by **ATS** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 6:14 am

Nielzie wrote:Shady business, first selling lifetime licenses and then stopping the development a few months later.. Reminds me of that Prodyon guy, although that was a one man company.

I'm 99.9% sure that was not their intention.

LeVzi · Post by **LeVzi** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 7:49 am

Well I hope they dump their command centre and leave the products we own with just a simple serial or such like, as if it stops working, thats gonna cause a shit storm.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 10:01 am

LeVzi wrote:Well I hope they dump their command centre and leave the products we own with just a simple serial or such like, as if it stops working, thats gonna cause a shit storm.

The products you own already have a simple serial number, you should find them under your account. And the Command Centre drops the individual standalone installers into a user-definable folder, so you can just locate that and keep copies of those installers.

GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 10:17 am

glokraw wrote:Hey Gibson, sell the code to someone who will use it, or open-source the code,
no need for it to die, for some beancounter's 'just because'.
It would be at least a small show of respect for those who spent
hard-earned money, and many hundreds man-hours learning
and using your products. I for one love Dimension Pro, Rapture, and z3ta+,
no need to leave the code in a dumpster somewhere.

Trouble is the code is their intellectual property so they see it as a potential asset. They won't give it away where someone else (potential competitor?) could make money off of it rather than them.

I am surprised that when things like this happen, some pissed-off programmer has never just dumped the code somewhere on the net, maybe even an unprotected build.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 3:17 pm

Teksonik wrote:Hmmm perhaps Cakewalk employees are actually jumping for joy now....

http://gawker.com/gibson-guitar-ceo-get ... 1661598680

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgSnsAbBsNQ

RIP Cakewalk