Re: [OS:N:] (no subject)

--- Johnnie Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> Finally, that is the point.  It should not be precluded.  As for your
> university requiring a particular software package you need to talk
> to
> them about that.  Maybe you should be talking to your elected
> representatives.  They are the ones that empower schools and
> universities to function.  But then you should be in contact with
> them
> about the whole DRM crap anyways.

That is one of the major goals of the FSEDU :

1. to advocate the rights of the student to choose to use free
software.
2. to publicly denounce the organizations that by contract eliminate
the ability of students to use free software only.


one student does not matter to the university, but a public statement
about the way that they take away the basic rights of the students may
help them change thier minds.

I am sure that there are some universities that will allow students to
choose free software, we need to find them and convince the others to
do the same.

you might say that public embarassment is not a good tatic, but I think
that most of these companies just dont care at all, they may start
caring when enought people start to make noise.

mike

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

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