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On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:18:02 -0600, Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
wrote:

>A computer is like a violin.  You can imagine a novice trying first a
>phonograph and then a violin.  The latter, he says, sounds terrible. 
>That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our
>computer scientists.  Computer programs are good, they say, for a
>particular purpose, but they aren't flexible.  Neither is a violin, or a
>typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

Along that analogy, open source with lots of good code libraries
backing you up might be like MIDI files with a good soundfont, right?

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