On Friday 03 January 2003 09:34, Uri Bruck wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Alon Altman wrote: > > I think we should try and pass legislation that schools will be > > forbidden to require the students to purchase closed software to submit > > their schoolwork. > > How is that different than requiring students to buy a certain textbook? > (In Haifa we rarely did that. Most textbooks were loaned to us, but I > believe in most of the country high school students are still required to > buy them, and sometimes they are required to buy a specific edition) >
It is most different in that it allows a choice, not subdues it. If for example the schools demanded that the works be submitted in RTF format, one could have chosen between this or that office suite. But how can you choose if a specific format that the schools require can only be produced correctly by proprietary software? > > Also, we should reduce public spending on non-open software > > development - CET should be producing open software that could then be > > ported by the community (maybe using winelib). > > > > Alon -- "I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?" ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
