Am Samstag, 22. März 2008 schrieb Folderol: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:42:04 -0400 > frank <frankpirrone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Arnold Krille wrote: > > > Am Freitag, 21. März 2008 schrieb frank: > > >> NO, the drum patterns are NOT copyright. If they WERE, once my head > > >> cleared a bit, I would head directly to the USPTO and register every > > >> damned note of the 12-tone even-tempered scale left unclaimed. > > > Please tell me when you do that. I will be the next in the line to > > > register all the blue-notes and all the non-even-tempered notes. > > > Basicly I would register all the frequencies not already registered by > > > you... Would be really a lot of royalties. > > Geez, Arnold, you are an idea monster! I had never considered > > blue-notes OR microtonal possibilities at ALL. Well, there goes a small > > fortune I could have locked up... > I have just applied for a patent covering a method of varying pitch on > successive notes such that, to the listener, they seem to fit another > patented scale but are actually randomly, but measurably different :) I think I will also patent the "converting sound pressure to electric potentials in biological material". Should cover every ear on the world. I will be *RICH*! We really should send this conversation to the fsf to support their arguing against software patents. Only we didn't talk about software but real patents here... Arnold -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a "rm -rf /". Or ask your administrator to do so...
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
_______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
