Re: [OS:N:] Re: Troll

> 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

We support the OPL. We support the FDL for our public docs.

That is not the same as being against the "basic freedoms of students".

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

Um. HTML? I've already answered this.

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

Linux? Mozilla? Heard of those?

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

We support access to code we write/port/develop or contribute to. Stop
telling everyone Digital Think's code is Red Hat's code.

> 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

You mean by developing and contributing to F/OSS Java tools, code and
applet servers? The answer is Yes.

> 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

What?!?!?!

I give up.

> 
> 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 .
> 
> 
> 
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