People don't realize that the government can only appropriate funds from one party to another. If we were to tax universities for music, we would indeed see a decrease in wealth of university attendees (and believe me, I'm one of them -- we don't have much wealth to begin with). Surely, a music tax would only further disable this demographic from buying merchandise and going to concerts - what the musicians actually make their money on. Once again, the record labels are trying to lucratively profit while making us believe that we're supporting the artist. And that doesn't even include the money the universities would have to spend to keep up with those ridiculous regulations and restrictions. And THAT would be a money hog.

What an irresponsible use of taxpayer money.

Well, in that case, call IIS shit; Lighttpd is run by Wikipedia and YouTube, so...

You raise an interesting point. I am a developer for a very popular (albeit, niche) open source application used by electronic musicians. It used to be sold for a very expensive fee, but it was forced to switch to GPL - in part because of the popularity of competing open source programs, and also due to the significant improvement in quality this move achieved. The only way this project could have been capitalized on was through service. Open source applications, if used by a multitude of people like in both our situations, are typically much more stable and innovative than any commercial competitors; friendly, fast, helpful, and dependable service that the customer comes to rely upon is the way to prevent open source from being that "race to zero." See Redhat and SuSE for examples. Don't look toward Sun... the Solaris 10 platform only still survives because of Sun's reputation as a stellar sever/workstation manufacturer.

So using Linux is like killing someone? =P

So, per your analogy: using Linux is like being locked up in jail? Right...