Thus said Ross Werner on Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:48:57 MDT: > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Hans Fugal wrote: > > Well I didn't imply that mozart free is equivalent to stallman free. > > Just that opera free is not mozart free. What I meant by mozart free > > was public domain, if we want to be specific, but in any case opera > > is simply ticket-free and not any other kind of free. > > Ah, that makes perfect sense then :-)
That's how I understood his analogy. > (And actually it gave me a good excuse to post the Miserere link, > which is my favorite copyright-related story. Who knows if it's true, > but it sure makes for good reading!) It was a good read. I had read another account before, but the details were less specific (didn't actually mention the name of the work he reverse engineered). Which brings up a point... wouldn't this be considered reverse engineering? According to the story he never actually saw a copy of the music. Andy -- GnuPG ID 0xA63888C9 (D2DA 68C9 BB2B 26B4 8204 2219 A43E F450 A638 88C9) [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 3:09pm up 91 days, 23:47, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
