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- Subject: Re: intellectual property and shit
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.005528.10264@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 00:55:28 GMT
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- In article <724216511.AA00708@contrast.wlink.nl> qsi@contrast.wlink.nl (Peter Kocourek) writes:
- >steve wells wrote in a message on 10 Dec 92 to All
- >
- > 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-)
- >
- >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.
- >
- >
- >YHS:QSI!
- >
- Mozart died at age of 39 (??) because of poverty but he still wrote
- music until the very last days. Computer softwares aren't like
- music, they cannot last so long.
-