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

James Michael DuPont <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.open-source-now
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- Jeremy Hogan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I'd be interested in seeing what portion of the EULA you've
> > > misinterpreted to mean they can't see the Red Hat Linux source. 
> > 
> > Now you are taking about some red hat product. I am talking about
> the
> > software that the students need to take part in the courseware. I
> am
> > talking about the software that is needed to take part in the red
> hat
> > educational experience. I am interested in defending the students
> > rights and the rights of the schools to use only free software.
> 
> Okay. So your beef is with Java and Flash?

The redhat courseware delivered in Java and Flash coupled with the EULA
of the digitalthink seem prevent the porting of this content to
alternative display mechanisms. Even if you had the means to reverse
engineer the files and display them on an alternative viewer, that
would IMHO violat the  contract with redhat and digtalthink.

So that means you need to use the non-free viewers provided by
macromedia and sun, and are futher bound by thier licence agreements.

mike


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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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