On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:49 PM, anirudh singh shekhawat < shekhawat.anir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Everyone feared IBM in the good old days, when guys in black suits and tie > would either make you go out of business or buy you off the hook. IBM guys > were considered evil big brothers, who were ruthless and sung company songs. > So anyways IBM seemed to have changed quite a lot in recent years and we all > know its open support towards free and open source mentality, and anyways I > am here to talk about what is it doing right now which actually violates > that very philosophy. > > There is a very popular competition which IBM runs in india called TGMC > (The great mind challenge) [1] for students. Well that is all good but the > tricky part comes here. IBM only accepts projects made using its technology > i.e. the tools which only IBM provides to the educational institute you are > in and yes, they dont give these tools to individuals, they can only be > acquired once your institute is in the program and it so happens that IBM > after sending its big boys to your institute and, your college will soon > will make it compulsory for everyone in the final year to make their major > projects for IBM, and my college is one of them and we are stuck with making > our major projects in TGMC if we want or not. > Yes, TGMC is quite popular. They arrived in our college too (thankfully our authorities do not encourage database based projects and didn't fall for it) > The tools to be used are : Rational Rose/RSA > RAD/Eclipse/WSAD/ WebSphere Portal > WAS/WAS CE > DB2 Express ā āCā or DB2 UDB > Is it wrong for them to do so? The only reason they are doing this is to popularise their products and make students acquainted with them. > and as it seems that you cant do this project without IBM's help. But what > is more important are the Terms and Conditions, what it has imposed on all > student developers working on it, here is an interesting one :- > > "By submitting entries, entrant grants IBM and their agents of the program > the right to publish, use, adapt, sell, edit and/or modify such entry in any > way, in commerce and in any and all media worldwide, including but not > limited to the Internet, without limitation and without compensation to the > entrants. Entrant also grants IBM worldwide irrevocable, nonexclusive and > royalty-free right and license to use, have used, copy, reproduce, transfer, > modify and/or display any information contained in their entry in whole or > part and in any form without compensation." for a complete set of Terms and > Conditions [2] > Well, there are lots of other organisations who have similar terms. If one happens to send in entries to a writing contest of some sort, one will face similar conditions. Is it not violating intellectual property rights? > Woah!! So that means you dont own your work, it just does not belong to > you. I wonder what is this giant teaching young students on this country. > And what is this policy where, on one hand its promoting open source and on > the other its doing this. > And this is not limited to my college alone, I know a lot many college in > jaipur, rajasthan, india which have fallen for this and have made it > mandatory for their students to work on it. > > [1] http://tgmc.in > > [2] https://tgmc.in/terms_conditions.php?id=8 > > regards > Acedip > > -- > My web home http://acedip.in > Linux Users Group Jaipur http://lugj.in > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.1 > GCS/FA/L/MU/P/S !d s:- a-- C UL P++ L+++ E- W++ N++ o K-- w--- O- M- V PS > PE Y PGP t 5 X R tv b DI D G e h+ r- y++ > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-india mailing list > Fedora-india@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india > -- Yours sincerely, Dipanjan Chakraborty
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