Re: [Fsfe-uk] Software patent - any action?

[Chris Croughton]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:50:54PM +0000, Chris Lale wrote:

> Software patenting - an analogy

Wonderful!  As a musician myself that all really makes sense.
Unfortunately I can't evaluate it as a non-musician <g>, but from what
RMS said it seems that political types are at least familiar with the
musical analogies.

> The cadential six four" (Ic, V, I) is a development of the perfect

Missing " before cadential (and that's nitpicking!).

> Imagine that the Church had never allowed the development of the
> plagal cadence (IV, I) into the twelve-bar blues. The chord
> progression (algorithm) for a basic blues is I, I, I, I, IV, IV, I, I,
> V, IV, I, I. Think of the thousands of pieces of blues, jazz, rock and
> pop that we may never have heard. The theme music of the old
> television series "Batman" may never have reached our screens! Of
> course, the church may selectively have allowed some "morally correct"
> blues music in order to generate an income. Even so, it is hard to
> imagine that we would have had even a fraction of the rich heritage we
> enjoy today.

Ooh, I like it!  Well done!

Chris C