Re: [edu-eu] Talking points for FLOS Software at universities

[Massimo Mancini]

Hi Thomas,
I am a math teacher in a tech italian high school.
I am involved in various open source projects. 
You can find tons of arguments about your question. But I think the
most important is freedom.
Freedom to teach, freedom to learn, free to decode and analize, free to 
experiment without the need of
some authorization... no burocrazy at all, no risk of legal issues for the
teacher or for student (especially for students). Anyone can share and
distribute the software they use. The freedom is priceless....

Massimo Mancini
www.saraceno.org
www.reteisi.org

 

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:25:12PM +0200, Thomas Thym wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> yesterday I was invited to a panel discussion at the University Basel, 
> Switzerland (representing the business world and open source communities). 
> After the discussion I was asked by a research assistant if I know some good 
> arguments to convince her professor to support open source software instead 
> of propreterian. I searched the web and found some points. Do you know a good 
> link to a good source or perhaps a scientific paper?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas
> 
> P.S.: The arguments I found so far:
> 
> * Open source software was born at universities.
> * For the world wide scientific community it is more efficient to work 
> together on software instead of each buying software by (perhaps different) 
> companies reinventing the wheel.
> * Power to modify and extend the software to the specific needs.
> * Encourages the international cooperation between different universities 
> using and supporting the same free software.
> * ...
> 
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