[LAU] Linux audio course Rotterdam

[drew Roberts]

On Friday 12 September 2008 14:15:26 Grammostola Rosea wrote:
> Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 06:50:42PM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote:
> >> When you give a course it cost you: time, traveling costs
> >> (Brussels > R'dam) organization, making a course book (and copy it?) and
> >> linux audio usage, educational and presentation skills.... that could
> >> deserve some money....
> >
> > I agree. OTOH, one reason why the course is given in
> > English in the centre of the Dutch/Flemish language
> > region may be that a lot of the course material is
> > just copied from material available on the web.
> > In that case I just hope that Mr. Moors has all
> > the copyright issues sorted out.
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> I don't think it feels good if someone makes an documentation and a
> other person is selling it... Or making an app and someone is selling
> it... (I have to dive more into the values of GNU and open source...).

Please, if you think my software and art is good enough for you to take your 
precious time and try and sell it, try to do so. (Within the bounds of the 
licenses I use. GPL, BY-SA, etc.)

Naturally, I would "prefer" it if you would share the income from such 
efforts, but that may be too "expensive" (in various ways) for you to do so I 
rather not make such requirements.

The GPL certainly allows people to sell copies of others works. Hence Red Hat 
and the rest being able to sell boxed software.

> But if you don't want that to happen you should take care of your
> copyright specifications...
>
> On the other hand if 'we as community' are to negative to this kind of
> commercial courses, it will turn out against us... What I mean is this,
> if someone in R'dam is able to make 25 people enthusiastic and capable
> in using gnu/linux for audio and music creation, the community will
> become larger, more people will use the free audio apps and there is a
> change that this will improve the quality. Also the change for money
> donation will become larger when more people uses the apps.... And I do
> know people who gives courses linux for free etc. But didn't read about
> or met a person who is giving a course linux audio for free...  So maybe
> people are more willing  to  give such a course if it gets payed...
> And with the background of the 'teacher' of the course in R'dam (he was
> a member of a relative well known band from belgium) I like to see this
> course as a change and less as a threat...
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