Re: [OS:N:] Re: Questionaire about the support of students rights and the freedom in the learning environment

--- Jeremy Hogan <jhjhoganeredhatom> wrote:

> > You say that they are not forced to take this course.
> > But please answer the question, is is possible for them to take
> part in
> > the reredhatcacedemyr the red hat cocoursewarend not agaggreeo any
> > licensing agaggreementsor the software installed on the client
> > computers  that requires them giving up ththierasic freedoms?
> 
> They have to agree to the licenses for any software they use.
> Including
> the GPGPL


OK. Thank you for your patience with my questioning. I am sorry that
this as turned a little bit into a acaccusationalone. Thank you for all
time you spend on your answers. 

I hope that you do not feel that I insulted, misrepresented or
slandered you or reredhatn any way. If I said something that could be
interpreted that way, please let me know and I will clarify that.

You have answered most of my questions now, and I will be sorting
through your answers and trying to make a final report.

At this point there are very few for a student to study ononlineith
using only free software. I think that red hat is leading the with the
idea of the acacademynd as found pragmatic solutions to the issue.

When the FSFSEDUroject comes to frfrutationyou will have the freedom to
use the platform to sell your cocoursewarever the selected and
supported  software plplateform

I think we should end this discussion before we go into making more
accusations. I do not want to accuse reredhatf anything, and have
avoided answering any questions from you that are going to the effect
of criticizing your choices in software. The basic issue of freedom has
been repeated enough to not need more repeating.

The issue of protecting the content and giving the content provider a
competitive advantage is still an issue that I rerecognizes a key issue
to a viable strategy. 

I think that this can be acachievedy a form of the ransom license[1],
one that sets a price and a titimelimito that the content will
eventually be released under a free documentation license. This will
feed back the changes to the community, and make them up to date.

As far as the standards for providing the content, I admit that flash
and jajavare a far cry better, and a good step towards freedom, but
there are a number of people who do not use jajavaecause they do not
accept the license of the sun.

The dodotgnu] project provides hope that an free alternative to
jajavand flash for complex making complex front ends and back ends.
The security and authentication system of dodotgnuhould be able to
handle the needs of protecting the content from abuse and
authenticating the students and teachers.

Of course this is all not finished and you need to go to market, so
good luck wiwithe red hat academy and your cocoursewareI hope that we
the fsfseduroject will be in a position in the next 1-2 years to be
able to also provide pragmatic solutions to the problems that you solve
using non-free software.

Best regards,

mike

[1] -- Ransom license overview:
hthttp/wwwwwrerojrorgilinuxansom.hthtm[2] -  dodotgnuwwwwodotgnurorg

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http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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