Re: [OS:N:] Bad spending of public funds (Re: Questionaire about the support of students rights and the freedom in the learning environment)
James Michael DuPont <[email protected]>
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--- Johnnie Peters <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 04:45, James Michael DuPont wrote: > > > > > Requiring the student to sign away rights that he has in the > natural > > state which remove his rights to use free software should be > denouced > > when it is done by companies supposedly supporting free software, > and > > when done my tax funded course. > > > > I dont want my tax money to be spent on selling the students basic > > rights to greedy and mistrustful corporations. > > > I agree totally with this statement. This will not change immediatly > and it must be changed in the right way. You tax money and mine is > allocated by the government. If you want it changed, lobby for it > and > vote for people that believe as you do. > > Sounds like you are doing the first. The second is pretty hard to do > as > the people I would vote for rarely get large campaign donations. But > that can change. Get involved there too. > Does anyone know about any cases of public funds being spend on taking away students rights? Anyone know about public tax money being spent on microsoft or digital thinks EULA? Please send them to me! Thanks 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>