> "Upon further investigation, it became clear that Wenzheng Tang is a Chinese national, but not resident in China. As a guest in his current country, his residency status is predicated on a number of conditions, one of which is not violating the law.

> "If found in violation of laws, residency may be revoked and he may be deported to his home country.

> "This becomes even further complicated given another repo of his - Fuck 学习强国, which is highly critical of the Chinese government. Were he deported to China, who knows how he may be received."

See 'MuseScore/Audacity employee theatening to destroy a Chinese developer's life' (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27881539)

It feels like using a word-processor with a stuck "Insert" key - you're stuck in "overwrite" mode. This works for some aspects of entering music but is incredibly frustrating for others. This point has been raised many times on the fora but they are often dismissed in thinly disguised passive aggressive way ("you just don't understand the model, come back when you do").

This approach forces you to nail down the rhythm and measures first otherwise you're in a world of pain later. While a natural flow for me (and seemingly many others given the number of queries on the subject) is to start with the melody without too much regard for measures and fix up the timing later.

The odd thing is that it's clear that internally/technically, there is nothing that would prevent them allowing you to use the software in a more natural way (that supports cut/copy/insert/paste etc.) because there are ways to actually "insert" but it's made incredibly obscure by the way the UI hides this ability. I got the impression that the people running the project just didn't want to make it "easy" for users to work with a score in this way because it's just not the "correct" way to work with a score.

Despite this, I'm grateful for the effort that has gone into the Musescore series. Also I'll probably check out Musescore 4. I like Tantacrul's youtube channel.

- Musescore.com is run by Muse Group, formerly Ultimate Guitar. This is the sheet music sharing site which has a few controversies with downloading user scores, although this has improved a bit recently.

- Musescore.org is the GPLv3 notation software which they've announced the release for.

Muse is very good at keeping these two parts separated from each other. For example, the new "Muse Sounds" is installed via the closed-source "Muse Hub" (which economically makes sense as providing high-quality samples would be a fruitful business opportunity in the future) through a shared library.

Personally I think that this is a nice balance between maintaining the open-source software and providing features that practically only work with commercial backing - the reason that this could occur so quickly is because it reuses the playback engine and samples from StaffPad (https://www.staffpad.net), one of Muse's acquisitions.

I'm doing my best to be fully FOSS these days and I can't thank the devs of these programs enough for giving me faith in humanity.

I have a hard time trusting this company with anything, let alone my time and resources.

Same author also has a funny video on the UI of another music notation program, Sibelius: https://youtu.be/dKx1wnXClcI

But yeah... I learnt not to ask for a better workflow on the forum. It's full of "it's a complex app, you don't understand it" people.

When I asked about the incredibly crippled editing, I was attacked in the forums. I mean... the people were assholes.