Re: [edu-eu] FWB: Foss with benefits

[Charles Cossé]

Dear Marko,

>Note that you're advertising your work to the wrong audience.
>This list is about free software in education

My ultimate motive is to advance open source education software, and accelerate development.

The project being advocated is designed to produce strictly GPL-v3'd education software that is also available outside of the particular platform described.

I am a long-time FOSS developer and advocate ... 15 years now.   What I am advocating is something new, but not, I hope, something at-odds with GNU philosophy.   In fact, I have thought long and hard about this particular model and how not to offend my colleagues in the open source education software community. 

I am interested to fix any holes in my scheme, though, so could you elaborate on where I could be mistaken?

Thank you,

Charles

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Marko Dimjašević <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear Charles,

Note that you're advertising your work to the wrong audience. This list
is about free software in education, not non-commercial. If the
difference between the two is not obvious to you, please refer to
numerous resources by the GNU project or other free software projects
and organizations, e.g.:

https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html


--
Cheers,
Marko
http://dimjasevic.net/marko

On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 11:15 -0700, Charles Cossé wrote:
> Dear Open Source Educators,
>
>
> There is a new open source tool for parents to make their children
> study and learn in exchange for internet access.  It is
> non-commercial, yet still enables education software developers to be
> compensated for their efforts.
>
>
> http://www.asymptopia.org/autoteach
>
>
> The project's success will depend on participation.  It needs a parent
> community and a developer community, both of which are beginning to
> take shape.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Charles Cossé
>
> Author: TuxMathScrabble & More
>

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