[cc-community] 10k great Free songs (was Re: Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music)
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Tue Nov 20 16:02:05 EST 2007
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 14:15:02 Lucas Gonze wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2007 3:22 AM, Greg London <email at greglondon.com> wrote:
> > All I've been saying is that music doesn't
> > work the same way as software. That doesn't
> > mean it won't work at all. But telling me
> > it's working for you isn't telling anything
> > at all about whether or not it's working
> > the *same* or not.
>
> Software encompasses semantics just as much as music does. Is a
> search engine for finding web pages or answering questions? How is a
> word processor different from a text editor? What's the difference
> between a browser and the web?
>
> Where software and music are irreconcilably different is that
> expressive works are always "true" to the extent that they reflect
> their creator's desires, internal state, and identity. Expressive
> works can't have bugs.
Honestly, you don't know my expressive works then. They are full of bugsat
times.
I am beginning to think this maybe one important contribution the Free
Software world might bring to culture. I am thinking specifically of the
release early, release often mantra some have adopted.
How much more could an aspiring novelist learn if he couldgo back and study
all of the drafts and editor's comments of some of his favourite novels?
Same for a song writer...
How much more inspiring it might be to see that your first draft is not so
many orders of magnitude below the first draft of a fine novel even if it is
huge orders of magniture below the finished work?
>
> This is the argument that RMS uses to explain why the GPL can't be
> ported straight over to multimedia.
Hashe ever made this argument inthis form. I only recall him limiting himself
to his chosen field and stating that he has not worked out the variables for
other fields.
> It's a limited argument which
> doesn't get to the entire range of issues and capabilities of open
> media, but it is not untrue.
all the best,
drew
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