Re: Overcoming the "Dylan is Dead" belief?

I think the best reply to them would be: Yes, Dylan is dead. Long live
Dylan!


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Bruce Mitchener
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Repeatedly, I have run into people who thought Dylan was long gone and
> dead.  People often think it was an Apple-only project and that when Apple
> killed Apple Dylan, it was the fatal blow and that there wasn't anything
> available.
>
> This has been a common refrain in conversations, when we do a release
> ("Wow, I didn't know Dylan was still around."), and when others bring it up.
>
> It has been suggested a number of times that we should consider renaming
> things to divorce ourselves from the past and allow people to get to know
> us under a new identity.  That'd be a lot of work though and would have
> issues with things like the DRM and DPG which we can't go and rename.  I
> also think that having the history is valuable at times in and of itself.
> Dylan had grand origins and it needn't shy away from them, perhaps.
>
> What can we do? What should we do?
>
>  - Bruce
>
>
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