Re: [OS:N:] (no subject)
James Michael DuPont <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.org.open-source-now |
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--- Jeremy Hogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Copyright is fine, but what we are talking about here is the utter > > removal of the freedoms of the students so that our author friends > can > > live a life of wealth. [SNIP OUT BAIT] I am going to try and not make any more jabs, and keep to the facts. > At least they run on Linux (which they didn't not so long ago), which > narrows the egregious assault on the minds of students by horrible > money > grubbing authors and teachers you equate it to be even further. Look : It is more than the plugins, but entire set of freedoms that the contracts, licenses and agreements on the content that will prevent a fair competition by free software. In fact the future DRM may preclude any free software competetion. This is not something that open-source-now would support is it? 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>