On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand your annoyance at the fact that some students will get > sucked into creating proprietary code. Moreover, some other students > who are more "into" open source will be left out in the cold. To them > I would say, reserve your energy for programmes like GSoC which do > seem to mostly do the right thing.
On that point, LtU linked to a paper [1] describing Scratch recently. It's quite a good read, also mentions how kids learn the value of open source and collaboration using Scratch. To the OP, welcome to the real world, get used to it, or subvert it. :) [1] http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/scratch/scratch-cacm.pdf -- Roshan Mathews http://teamtalk.im _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
