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From: rwa@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Ross Alexander)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Stallman's attitude
Message-ID: <1304@atha.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: 10 Dec 89 22:26:27 GMT
References: <8078@stiatl.UUCP> <32101@news.Think.COM>
Organization: Athabasca University
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barmar@Think.COM writes:
>In article <8078@stiatl.UUCP> meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) writes:
>>why shouldn't music be free?
[...]
>a living?  (Well, RMS would like to see the government paying programmers
>to produce free software, so I guess the government could also pay
>composers, artists, writers, etc. -- in other words, composers should be
>paid by the NEA, and the music would be free.)

We do that in Canada, it's called the Canadian Arts Council, and is
considered eminently respectable.  We also have socialist governments
from time to time, and socialist medicine.  Somehow this runs in
parallel with a private market economy just fine.  Americans can be _so_
ethnocentric! 100 * :-). (So can we Canuks, mind).

	Ross