Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Randy Howard
Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 01:14 pm

Rob Thorpe wrote
(in article 
<1125485341.305149.314530@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):

> Gerry Quinn wrote:
>> It's similar to a translation of a book, or a reproduction of a song on
>> a different medium.  A singer produces air vibrations which are
>> translated into digital or analogue data, and then to other data
>> encodings.  The copyright persists.
> 
> No it isn't.  You can listen to a singer and understand what they're
> saying easily, the same is not true of object code.

Try looking at a .wav file in binary some time and tell me how 
beautiful the music is.  Or watch an opera on a frequency 
analyzer and tell me what it sounds like.


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Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)

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