I know that there are quite a few musicians on this list so I thought they might be interested in this (if they didn't already know about it). I was reading an article yesterday (I don't remember where) that was talking about the BSA fining businesses for unlicensed software. Lo and behold, the first business cited (for 8 unlicensed copies of M$) was Ernie Ball/Music Man. Apparently they got stung for $90,000.00 US. The article stated that Ernie Ball immediately switched to "open source" and never looked back. Being a curious person, I sent an email to Ernie Ball to find out what "open source" meant. The answer is Red Hat Linux. It's nice to see a fairly large music business getting the message. It appears that the BSA may be one of open source's biggest allies. Jan
