On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:34:20AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
John Tapsell tapselj0@cs.man.ac.uk wrote:
In the UK, and I expect at every university everywhere, you sign a document granting them ownership of your brain when you join.
Quite frankly, I think I am offended that public money received by universities (and indeed now the money paid by the students themselves) is used to develop products which are not available for the national good. Why are we paying for their R&D effort that follows a broken product development process? If the public pays, the public should be allowed to use it without paying a second time, surely?
Because the politics doesn't understand it. We've to make sure they know and understand it. If they still don't do it better maybe we should do it ourself and form a GNU party. Wouldn't that be nice? We could prohibit non-free software!
Ok, let's go back to the real world. ;-)
Jeroen Dekkers