{"id":599,"date":"2007-08-01T21:39:26","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T02:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/01\/amusing-open-courseware-request"},"modified":"2007-08-01T21:39:30","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T02:39:30","slug":"amusing-open-courseware-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/01\/amusing-open-courseware-request","title":{"rendered":"Amusing Open Courseware request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received most interesting mail from a training company in Australia. They want to use some of my (dated) <a href=\"http:\/\/training.bytebot.net\/\">open courseware<\/a>, and obviously, I gave them permission. What was amusing was how they approached the situation: &#8220;<i>We are prepared to not make a profit but will realistically have to cover printing and admin.<\/i>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, they&#8217;re a training company. And this was from their Business Development Manager. <b>How many out there think the courseware should be brought up to scratch, for modern versions of OOo and Linux? <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Under a modern version of the CC license, though I&#8217;m not sure how many people are out there happily not-attributing and ripping me off, as we speak. Maybe just PDFs, and no sources? Definitely interested to hear anyone&#8217;s thoughts on this (via email, even).<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/training\" rel=\"tag\">training<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/courseware\" rel=\"tag\">courseware<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/open%20courseware\" rel=\"tag\">open courseware<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/openoffice.org\" rel=\"tag\">openoffice.org<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/linux\" rel=\"tag\">linux<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/amusing\" rel=\"tag\">amusing<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Amusing%20Open%20Courseware%20request&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F08%2F01%2Famusing-open-courseware-request&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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