{"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":"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received most interesting mail from a training company in Australia. They want to use some of my (dated) open courseware, and obviously, I gave them permission. What was amusing was how they approached the situation: &#8220;We are prepared to not make a profit but will realistically have to cover printing and admin.&#8220; Yes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-9F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}