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In article <724216511.AA00708@contrast.wlink.nl> qsi@contrast.wlink.nl (Peter Kocourek) writes:
>steve wells wrote in a message on 10 Dec 92 to All
>
> SW> If composers/music writers etc. Didn't do anything without 
> SW> pay, then why are the music's of Bach, Mozart, Schubert, etc. 
> SW> etc. Around?!  Much, if not all of such music was written because 
> SW> people enjoyed doing it. Many people enjoy programming, and 
> SW> as such don't care much if they don't get any response (although 
> SW> it's always nice to get compliments 8-) 
>
>Nonsense. Classical composers wrote their music to order, usually. Most
>composers were in the pay of wealthy patrons as court composers (such as
>Eszterhazy in the case of Haydn) or the church (Bach, Mozart). The didn't
>do it for free. They got paid. They had to feed their families, you know.
>
>
>YHS:QSI!
> 
Mozart died at age of 39 (??) because of poverty but he still wrote
music until the very last days. Computer softwares aren't like
music, they cannot last so long.