Sometimes, people would just like to listen to music - particularly members of the public who are frequently the target audience of SFD events. And if you can tell a member of the public that the music is "open" in the sense that the music can be distributed, sampled and mixed with the artists' blessing, it does bring home in a much more direct manner what software freedom is all about.
<br><br>Plus, we like music :-) (although not necessarily Sex Pistols and death metal, which we will try to avoid)<br><br>Robert.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Douglas A. Whitfield
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">What exactly is the point of the music?&nbsp; I
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see the value in this when it comes to SFD.&nbsp; I could see examples of music
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
<a href="mailto:sfd-discuss-bounces@sf-day.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sfd-discuss-bounces@sf-day.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:sfd-discuss-bounces@sf-day.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sfd-discuss-bounces@sf-day.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Robert Schumann<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, June 11, 2007 5:05
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Fabian Rodriguez<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Team discussions about SFD<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Spam:11.5] [SFD-discuss]
Re: [SFD-announce] CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams</span></font></p>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To be clear, the suggestion is that the CD we send doesn&#39;t contain any
software: it will likely contain only music and video footage.<br>
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Thanks everybody for your suggestions - keep them coming. It is very helpful
for us to get an idea of what teams are looking for from us.<br>
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