Recently I homemade a CD including versions of a song Larry Otway (InOBU) wrote, and one Áine Cooke had written - and I had made quite a few changes, because I'm like IanB in that. I sent copies to both of them - and I was really pleased that they both said they liked the way I'd done it, including the changes. That was partly because it's always nice to have people you respect say things like that - but also because it was confirmation that on this particular matter we are in agreement. And I think it's important for us to keep thinking that way, and it's away of thinking that is very much under challenge today.
As Woody might have said:
As I went singing, I saw a sign there;
On the sign it said NO TRESPASSING,
But on the other side it didn't say nothing--
That side was made for you and me!