User blog comment:Piano-notes/A Petition. It's Worth a shot!/@comment-32500188-20141027121058

Like it's been stated below, petitions by their lonesome don't have any value in changing things due to how ridiculously often people make them, as well as the inane agendas they try to push. The galaco and Oprah Winfrey as a VOCALOID petitions took the cake... and remember that life-sized Death Star Replica petition, anyone? The whole thought behind it actually being made was ridiculous enough for thousands of people to joke sign it so the White House reps could address it as per their policy when signatures reach a certain threshold. It still makes me wonder why folks really believe petitions will be taken seriously if they aren't about SERIOUS real life issues or something that's causing a major inconvenience to a large mass of people... and even then, a lot of the serious petitions never change a situation, much less get addressed if they don't have some news outlet making it known that it exists. (・︵・)

Really, I know you weren't the one that made this one, but it's best in the future not to get your hopes up with any sort of VOCALOID-related petition... (especially when they're expecting only just 100 signatures to actually make a difference, when YAMAHA actually caters to hundreds of thousands of customers around the world, as well as the fact that YAMAHA only has so much say as to what the other companies do concerning their voice libraries and characters.)

Either way, it's like Eevee and Angel said, there are too many other issues that would prevent such a thing as transfering ownership to another company to complete them, and there are plenty of other VOCALOIDs that exist, not to mention other older VOCALOIDs that people would love to see updated to more current specs someday in the future if it were possible. We've been getting spoiled with so many new VOCALOIDs these past few years, so it's not like we've taken a major loss in this. It'd be a different story for me if both were on the cusp of completion and the data was ready to be made available before VocaNext went under, but that's not the case. While I personally love vocal variety, it's just no use in getting upset over one that already has a similar voice-type of others out there and another that had no voice at all... because sometime down the road, we'll be getting newer, fresher additions to the VOCALOID variety that's out there. Isn't that enough to be grateful for? (・3・)