<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 January 2014 08:41, Chris Bell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrisbell@chrisbell.org.uk" target="_blank">chrisbell@chrisbell.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Tue 21 Jan, Alain Williams wrote:<br>
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> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:00:26PM +0000, Nix wrote:<br>
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> > It's deader than classical music.)<br>
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> What is wrong with classical music - many people listen to it a lot ?<br>
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</div> Music is described as "classical" after sufficient time for it to become<br>
clear that many repeated performances can be tolerated.<br>
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Chris Bell <a href="http://www.chrisbell.org.uk" target="_blank">www.chrisbell.org.uk</a><br>
Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house.<br>
<br></div></blockquote><div> </div></div>Well, the PROMS are well attended (that is classical music daily for 3 months), one really struggles to get tickets for the Royal Opera House, some English National Opera or even Holland Park Opera performances.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Some other venues have similarly well attended concerts and seasons all year round, and as per recorded music we never had more variety and choice.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
So the definition of "dead" as "being alive and well" is puzzling to me. I hope the same definition isn't used for Linux servers :-P <br></div></div>