--- Joaquim Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > If you read the plex86 LGPL license : > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html > you can see that you don't have to ask ANYBODY > permission for > you or your students to work on plex86. > Any volunteer work is welcome. > > Why on earth do you think you have to ask for > "permission"? > Why on earth would anyone say they "wouldn't like" > the students to > work on it? > This question is even more ridiculous as almost no > one is doing any > work on plex86 at this time. When you talk about the > "comunity" do > you mean the user "comunity"? Or the "comunity" of > those discussing > this list on itself? Do you mean the "comunity" of > those who like to > think they own plex86? Has anyone read the LGPL > license? > > Regards, > Joaquim
Hi: I particullary think it's very important to define some of this things. Since 1999, I'm trying to implement a mecanism to incorporate Open Source projects on universitie's courses, because I'm a Professor. I think the problem is deeper that it seems. I'll try to explain some concepts: 1) The GNU and other similar projects come from the academic world (Richard Stallman is an academic, for example) 2) A comercial community (i.e. RedHat, Caldera, etc. etc. etc.) has taked the leadership of Open Source, but (at least from my viewpoint) changing the essence of the idea. 3) If the academy not respond to that, the OpenSource idea will become another comercial empire, like Microsoft. IBM, Sun, RedHat, etc. are very interested to create another "software phenomena" like Windows, but without Microsoft. What's my opinion? a) It's necessary to convert the traditional Computer Science's School into a "Software Fabric", like the Capability Maturity Model says, where student's may occupy all the "roles" and the professors becomes the project leaders. What's your opinion about that? José Enrique Alvarez _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? La emoción e intensidad del deporte en Yahoo! Deportes. http://deportes.yahoo.com.mx
