Z:gnu-www-ja-software-patents--b71611-When you complain about this,/en

When you complain about this, the patent holders would say &ldquo;Ah Beethoven, you are just bitching because you have no ideas of your own. All you want to do is rip off our inventions&rdquo;. Beethoven, as it happens, had a lot of new musical ideas but he had to use a lot of existing musical ideas in order to make recognizable music. In order to make music that listeners could possibly like, that they could recognize as music. Nobody is so brilliant that he can re-invent music and make something that people would want to listen to. Pierre Boulez said he would try to do that, but who listens to Pierre Boulez?