Re: [OS:N:] Re: Questionaire about the support of students rights and the freedom in the learning environment
James Michael DuPont <[email protected]>
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--- Les Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > > James Michael DuPont <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > I think that redhat should try and take away less rights of the > students while making their profits. > << > > I'm sorry, but I've had enough of this silliness. Read my lips: you > do NOT > have any "right" to other people's intellectual property. So in order to protect your IP, you need to make other use non-free software, closed file formats and bind them to the EULA, all so you can make your money? > Companies and developers have the right to sell their work for > profit. They > have the right to sell the machine code, but not the source code. But what does that have to do with the student, they have the right to refuse to buy this software and sign the agreements. > > Even authors, course developers, instructors and trainers have a > right to > eat. And that takes precedence over your *imagined* "right" to reuse > and > redistribute their work as you see fit. Les, now you are going way to far, that is over the line! I think you should retract that accusation, Or come up with supporting evidence. Maybe you are talking to someone else or have not read my posts. I am not that stupid, so dont try and treat me that way. mike mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Subscription and Archive: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-source-now-list/ - For K12OS technical help join K12OSN: <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn>