Re: [LAD] students and copyright

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 re all, On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:00:20PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: of course there is a substantial difference between a full BA, a 3 years MA or a short internship / stage. we should definitely draw a line around what we are talking about. yep. and where do you learn to be a director and commit to long-term projects? :) seldom i've had the opportunity to make my long-term innovative project (and well succesful, in some cases) accepted by professors at school, rather than being invited to contribute to professors' projects for the limited time span i was following their course. at last i believe both approaches are useful: learn how to contribute to an existing project as well how to structure a new one - and even to make different projects interoperable, whenever complementary in their functionality. my argument is that in schools the latter is often neglected, probably because the professors are often concentrated on their own projects. in general i disregard lack of long-term commitment in students, but how would you ever learn to direction a project whose creator is your professor, even payd to mantain it over time? maybe fork it :) if it's GNU GPL'ed :) ciao - -- jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org GPG: 779F E8B5 47C7 3A89 4112 64D0 7B64 3184 B534 0B5E Nowadays only soubrettes, body builders, media owners and "the richest bozo in the pond" tend to be elected by a population of zombified slaves happy to run inside their guinea pig wheels Fravia, April 2009, http://fravia.com/swansong.htm