On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Alex Kozak <[email protected]> wrote:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20009386-261.html <http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20009386-261.html>It would be really useful to have a database (maybe on a wiki?) of how schools across the U.S. comply with these new federal rules. -- Alex Kozak Program Assistant Creative Commons
FC, in cooperation with FSF and CC, should produce, within two weeks, a carefully vetted and powerfully persuasive pamphlet on copyright law, computers, and the Net. Naturally much of the pamphlet will deal with the ludicrous claims of Microsoft's standard EULA and Apple's new, ah, it is not a EULA at all, as usually understood, but a raw declaration of ownership of the hardware and OS. The pamphlet should emphasize that no student should ever run any Microsoft OS. Nor should the student use any Apple device, unless the student has gotten root on the device and is confident that they can keep Apple from regaining root. The pamphlet should also have a section comparing free licenses vs restrictive licenses for software, music, novies, books, etc.. We should ask RIAA and MPAA and Microsoft and Apple and the Copyright Office to join us in producing a bundle of pamphlets which schools would distribute to all students using computers and/or the Net. oo--JS. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
