Klarinet Archive - Posting 000070.txt from 2010/07

From: Joseph Fasel <jhfasel@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sheet music copyright
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:02:52 -0400

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net> wrot=
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> At 02:32 AM 7/6/2010, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
>
>>As for "you cannot sell what people can get for free", perhaps you would
>>like to take this up with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a copy of which I
>>can get for free, perfectly legally, rebranded under the name "CentOS",
>>but which nevertheless manages to sell copious numbers of licences in
>>its original form. :-)
>
> I'll wager it is NOT "perfectly legal." =A0If it is, anyone who pays
> for it is a fool, and Red Hat Enterprise would be wise to get out of
> the losing business.

What Red Hat sells, essentially, is support for open-source software.
Unfortunately, I can't see how this model could apply to music.

--Joe
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