I agree 100%. The purpose of the GPL is creating freely available software. In fact, anybody who's bothered to read the agreement knows that the developer is also bound by certain rules. One of which (at least in the case of the GNU GPL) is not to impose additional restrictions on the software. It's not just a matter of ethics.
"As to where we would be w/o them [teachers].... lets see, reading books and learning actual skills out in the world?"
Um... I once heard a statistic stating that after leaving school, the average American (and I'm sure the same holds true here in Canada) reads about 0.6 books.
Don't get me wrong, I do think the education system is in desperate need of an overhaul, but eliminating teachers definately isn't the way to go.
Theoretically, if you have a large enough mass on the other end, these external forces should be relatively negligible, and it wouldn't take that much to counteract it.
Mind you, I still probably wouldn't want to test it out myself. ^^;
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I agree 100%. The purpose of the GPL is creating freely available software. In fact, anybody who's bothered to read the agreement knows that the developer is also bound by certain rules. One of which (at least in the case of the GNU GPL) is not to impose additional restrictions on the software. It's not just a matter of ethics.
"As to where we would be w/o them [teachers].... lets see, reading books and learning actual skills out in the world?"
Um... I once heard a statistic stating that after leaving school, the average American (and I'm sure the same holds true here in Canada) reads about 0.6 books.
Don't get me wrong, I do think the education system is in desperate need of an overhaul, but eliminating teachers definately isn't the way to go.
Theoretically, if you have a large enough mass on the other end, these external forces should be relatively negligible, and it wouldn't take that much to counteract it. Mind you, I still probably wouldn't want to test it out myself. ^^;