the past three decades or so.) The use of IP protections on software has created all manner of distortions in the way software is produced and consumed. Rather than rehash the big story, I’ll use my own experience with software IP as an example. My own journey into the open source movement came about because I got burned by the old model.

When I first wrote the program now known as Max, in 1988, my paycheck came from IRCAM. But many of the ideas behind Max had been developed at MIT, and many more were adapted from the work of other researchers. The code, at least, almost certainly belonged to IRCAM. IRCAM has energetically tried to capitalize on this, with some positive results early on, and with mostly negativeSymphony No. 1, "The Lord of the Rings"

Symphony No. 1 "The Lord of the Rings" is the first symphony for concert band written by Johan de Meij. It premiered in 1988 with the Groot Harmonieorkest van de Belgische Gidsen conducted by Norbert Nozy. The CD by the military band Koninklijke Militaire Kapel made the symphony famous. The symphony is based on themes from the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien; it consists of five separate movements, each illustrating a personage or an important episode from the book. In 1989 the symphony was awarded the Sudler Composition Award[1]. An orchestral version also exists, which orchestrated by Henk de Vlieger and premiered in 2001.