Re: [OS:N:] Re: Troll

--- Dee-Ann LeBlanc <[email protected]> wrote:
> James Michael DuPont <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I think that this is a good forum to point out the flaws that I see
> in
> > redhat "open source" educucation, because the open-source now
> project
> > is being promoted by redhat in such a large way. I find it very
> strange
> > that this education does not also *seem* to cover detailed
> education on
> > the freedoms of the users and the history of the GNU project. 
> 
> (I don't speak for Red Hat but I do speak as someone who's written
> about
> any number of certifications.) The Red Hat certification is on
> skills,
> it's a hands-on program. While history and licenses are important
> issues, they really don't belong in a skill-based certification
> unless
> there is some kind of scenario-based question testing your
> understanding
> of what you can and can't do.

I was talking about not only the content of the certification, but the
courseware and the open-source-now site. I find no mention of free
software or students rights on these sites.

It is an omission that I raised on the first round of questions,
let me recap :

 1. Do you support and promote the usage of the Gnu Free Documentation
license for your learning materials? 
-- no

2. Do you support and promote the usage of internet Standard file
formats for your learning materials? 
-no 

3. Do you support and promote the usage of free software for your
distance learning software? 
-- no

Do you support the idea of allowing access to the source code of all
the tools involved in the courseware? 
-- no 

4. Do you support and promote the relieving of students from EULA and
and other license agreements that are designed to take away the
freedoms of the students? 
-- no

5. Do you support and promote the docuementation of free software? 
-- yes

When you are creating learning materials, do you contribute your
changes, improvements, criticism, ideas and sources back to the
community?

-- no


Or am I missing anything here?

> Certification is about knowing HOW to do things. Ethics, licenses,
> and
> history are things that people should be interested in and pursue on
> their own. There's certainly plenty of places to learn about them,
> both
> freely available and not.

The open-source-now project is about general promotion and education
about "open source", I think that ethics and freedom are an integral
part of that .



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

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