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[TCK <guitardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

immortal tools!

Christopher Sorg wrote:

> And I don't just by products simply because they do the
> job.  I think that being a good consumer not only means purchasing a good
> product for a fair price (which I have already stated that Max/MSP is),
> but it also means being a responsible person.  I mean, this isn't
> Dolphin-laden tuna or child labor or anything, but is it poor business
> practice?
>

Right on chris, so unusual to hear today

~ david:

> from what i gathered, she maintains a sentiment against nonprofits
> because she sees them as excuses for (artistic) exploitation...................canadian
> culture is dramatically underfunded to begin with (because as a G8
> country, we don't need culture, we have the U.S.A.)
>

oh god......on the 20th anniversary of MTV - even the sarcasm is sarcastic

In DC, nonprofit usually implies a tax status supporting Bill Bennett or countless
other fat losers from living like the rest of us....although there are now 20
thousand applications a month for this "tax free" status.....applications are
granted without review most of the time

maybe this is a DC/USA context

realizing there remains zip choice for many institutions and people, one (can)
embrace friends despite funding, but since I don't want to accept the idea of
intellectual "property,"1  I cry - only use this status to poison the system that
invented it.......maybe this is the case......and "torch,"  I would prefer
arsonist over Olympian

1as defined by RIAA/IIPA etc.

.......and that's no bummer politics
tonight the patent runs out on prosac
soon there'll be a patent on the gene that cures diabetes or cancer or ?
I would hope that that patent holder is eaten alive
idea is fungible
thanks