trying to make someone buy a linux game. what have you been smokin'?? what do you expect? no one is going to pay money for a piece of software when everything else for the OS is free! lets not let money get its foot in the door. once you have to pay for one peice of software, you may find that you'll have to pay for more and more for linux software.
For one, i enjoy reading a book. It's nice to have something in my hands, and when you get a book from the library it has that smell, like a million people read it before you. I would hate to be working tech-support when there are only digital manuals for a OS's.
There is alot of good reasons for university's to get upset about this issue. It maybe something simpler than the professors being ashamed of their lectures. It could be greed driving the hole thing. Institution's like UCLA could be upset about not getting payed for your learning, because that is how they make their money (I know you can't get a job that requires a degree with out having one, but knowledge is power!). Second, If you read the notes before taking the classes, you have an unfair advantage over the other students. I have thought of one other idea. I release that this next idea is unlikely but not impossible. University's could be worried about someone posting notes full of incorrect information, giving the reader a false understanding (intentional or not) of what he/she just read. If this happened who would be at fault? The university, the person who posted the notes, or both? This is a notice informing all journalists that I must be contacted first to be qouted outside of this Slashdot discussion. To contact me remove the no-spam from my e-mail address.
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trying to make someone buy a linux game. what have you been smokin'?? what do you expect? no one is going to pay money for a piece of software when everything else for the OS is free! lets not let money get its foot in the door. once you have to pay for one peice of software, you may find that you'll have to pay for more and more for linux software.
For one, i enjoy reading a book. It's nice to have something in my hands, and when you get a book from the library it has that smell, like a million people read it before you. I would hate to be working tech-support when there are only digital manuals for a OS's.
There is alot of good reasons for university's to get upset about this issue. It maybe something simpler than the professors being ashamed of their lectures. It could be greed driving the hole thing. Institution's like UCLA could be upset about not getting payed for your learning, because that is how they make their money (I know you can't get a job that requires a degree with out having one, but knowledge is power!). Second, If you read the notes before taking the classes, you have an unfair advantage over the other students. I have thought of one other idea. I release that this next idea is unlikely but not impossible. University's could be worried about someone posting notes full of incorrect information, giving the reader a false understanding (intentional or not) of what he/she just read. If this happened who would be at fault? The university, the person who posted the notes, or both? This is a notice informing all journalists that I must be contacted first to be qouted outside of this Slashdot discussion. To contact me remove the no-spam from my e-mail address.