All the stories this morning were about the EMI/Apple press conference, where EMI announced - with Steve Jobs on the side for impact - that they would no longer copyprotect their music. ie no DRM, and their music will play on anybody's music player. Given all the GPL version 3 discussion around DRM, there must be something we can learn from EMI. I think its this - the more free the music is the more its worth. Apple will charge $1.29 for the no DRM version versus $.99 for the current DRM version. And EMI is making a simple business decision - we'll make more money if there is no DRM. From the open source standpoint, I think this means that if GPL3 is adopted with the current DRM term intact, software licensed that way will be less valuable than software licensed with the current GPL2 license which does not have a DRM provision. Worth thinking about during this final draft comment period.