Re: [OS:N:] Reply to multiple posts at once

--- Dee-Ann LeBlanc <[email protected]> wrote:
> James Michael DuPont <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > You can restrict the distribution of the files by usage of
> encryption,
> > authentication. 
> > 
> > digital watermarking can be used to track escaped documents,
> automatic
> > slight random changes in the grammar, spacing, punctuation and
> wording
> > of each version distributed is one method. 
> 
> As another poster pointed out, this really doesn't work all that
> well.

He said that it is too much to go after offenders, once the cat is out
of the bag.

 
> "Les Bell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> As an author and course developer (you'll see my name on some of
> those
> DigitalThink courses), it's nice to see someone keeping this in mind.
> People really don't seem to understand how much work goes into
> courses,
> computer books, and so on. [A syndrome represented by all of the
> terrible manuals you see out there because no one wanted to pay
> someone
> who specializes in technical/instructional writing.] 
> 
> I can't imagine doing all of that for free AND having to find another
> way to pay my mortgage and eat. :P

Ok, so you see no other way to pay for your morgage than to take away
the rights of the students to view the source code of the software and
make other viewing tools? I think the issue is boiling down to that
fact that the courseware distribution is not compatible with free
software at all.

mike

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

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