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- From: qsi@contrast.wlink.nl (Peter Kocourek)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: RE: intellectual property and shit
- Message-ID: <724216511.AA00708@contrast.wlink.nl>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:43:03
- Sender: postmaster@contrast.wlink.nl
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- steve wells wrote in a message on 10 Dec 92 to All
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- SW> If composers/music writers etc. Didn't do anything without
- SW> pay, then why are the music's of Bach, Mozart, Schubert, etc.
- SW> etc. Around?! Much, if not all of such music was written because
- SW> people enjoyed doing it. Many people enjoy programming, and
- SW> as such don't care much if they don't get any response (although
- SW> it's always nice to get compliments 8-)
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- Nonsense. Classical composers wrote their music to order, usually. Most
- composers were in the pay of wealthy patrons as court composers (such as
- Eszterhazy in the case of Haydn) or the church (Bach, Mozart). The didn't
- do it for free. They got paid. They had to feed their families, you know.
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- YHS:QSI!
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