Jobs Talks: Macs and Music
There was also the time where an American company(can’t remember who) wrote a program to make a computer produce every combination of musical notes possible, then record them onto a hard drive with a vue to owning all future copyright material ever!! Last I knew of this case, they were going to court about it, I presume sense prevailed!
10 PRINT “My other computers a ZX81”
20 GOTO 10
There was an Australian company that used a computer to generate all the possible tone sequences caused by dialing a number with a Touchtone phone, and copyrighted them, saying that they would charge a small royalty for these works of computer-assisted art.
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Human greed, it would seem, knows no bounds… I loathe the pursuit of unearned profits…
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Favorite (but less relevant than it used to be) Quote: Microsoft’s tyranny lies not in its success, but in the way it achieved and maintains that success.