On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 08:12 +0800, John Darrington wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:00:43PM +1000, James BRANFORD wrote: > > However, for no particular reason, my lecturer is insistant that an > assessment item be submitted in SPSS specific .spo or .spv viewer > formats. > > At my university, there is an official policy which would allow me to > lodge a complaint against that lecturer:
*sigh*, I am afraid that's pretty specific to Australia where you have embraced global information commons (foss, open licensing, Creative Commons) in such a way that it is unheard of in most other countries :( I hope this tendency will be contagious enough so that other gvts and universities will follow the example. > > "The University will ensure that it imposes no requirement or > expectation on students in any discipline that would require them > necessarily to make use of proprietary software when a cost is > involved, where there are comparable Open Source packages available" Very good formulation, thanks for sharing it. karel > > > [http://www.its.uwa.edu.au/policies/commspolicies/software,_applications_and_infrastructure/opens] > > Perhaps your university has a similar policy? It would be worthwhile > checking. Ask your guild or student services representative. > > > If you don't get a satisfactory resolution, then I'm sure that the > Free Software Foundation would like to hear about it. See > http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/university-wireless.html/view?searchterm=University > > J' > > > _______________________________________________ > Pspp-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
