Re: [Masterlibre-list] Re: Masterlibre-list Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2

[David Megias]

Hi Maureen and all,

Thank you very much for your message, that I've found very interesting. 
Our experience at the UOC is quite different from yours, since our 
students come mainly from the IT field. In fact, they have no problem in 
assuming the pseudo "cost free" side of free software and the 
unconventional business models it relays on, but they found it quite 
difficult to manage most of the law related issues (the details about 
licensing, intellectual property, industrial secrets, patents, and so on).

On the other hand, I am not directly involved with the teaching of the 
legal issues course in our Master programme, and I think it would be a 
good idea to create specific discussion lists or forums to gather people 
who are teaching similar subjects in different places. For example, we 
could create a specific list for legal issues, another one for software 
development, another for data bases, etc. It may be a very effective way 
to share teaching experiences about similar subjects and I think we 
could discuss about the creation of these specific lists during Genoa's 
meeting.

Best regards,

   David
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