John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] I find it very hard to quantify Beethoven's > Ninth Symphony as software, even if it was recorded digitally, given that > the invention of software postdated its composition by a LONG time [...]
Similarly, do we regard a popular performance of it as a gig, even if that gig was played in a gig venue? I suspect that a particular form of a work can be software, even if the original was not. [...] > I agree that this is good. But how does it promote Free Software to strip > manuals from Free programs? How does it promote free software to strip some accompanying software from it?
