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On jude77 said

Peter, your insight into issues like these are invaluable to the rest of us. I had assumed that most of the major players (NI, VSL, OTS etc) were fairly large stable businesses.  More and more I’m starting to see that many are small and maybe only one person, or a small group of people.

As to the whole Kontakt news, I wish NI would put out a public statement.  Does their silence say anything to you one way or the other?

Except now every AI tool has figured out my identity. Seriously. I wanted to keep that from search and AI, but I see that AI tools hadn’t done that.

The silence conveys nothing special. Consider that the German court has appointed Dr. Torsten Martini, he’s from a law firm, to oversee all of this. He determines what he believes is the best way forward for Native Instruments. It could be selling off all of the parts of the company to other companies or just selling off some parts and continuing operation of the other ones. That assessment takes time. He’s also tasked with ensuring the day-to-day operations continue as smoothly as possible, restructuring the organization, and handling legal obligations.

I’m sure that NI will be making a public statement soon to attempt to ease customer concerns. They are most likely going to communicate to parrtners — including developers and retail partners — and then channel partners, including their various retail distributors next, and then communicate out to the public. Although I don’t know how transparent they’ll be. But I would expect a public statement within the next couple of days.

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