Careful, better not tell the Holy Spirit that His job has been outsourced to the Austrian School of Economics ;-)
I think this is a more realistic formulation: Open sourcing removes one of the barriers to creativity, which in the current situation depends a lot on impressing people who have gained and hold the power of distribution, for the sake of profit.
On the other hand, open sourcing simultaneously removes one of the motives for creative effort, which is profit.
Of course, this means the singer's face will be lit from below, which is a little creepy in low-light situations.
Other than that, wow. Access to 2,300 pages of well-indexed chant, world-wide, instantaneously.
The only possible next step is to provide some underlying musical information, and thus audio. Imagine yourself running your finger across the neumes and hearing, in real-time, an audio representation of it. That would be another level of utility.
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