http://techrights.org/2009/07/29/blackboard-loses-again/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 http://techrights.org/2009/07/29/blackboard-loses-again/comment-page-1/#comment-71590 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:48:38 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=15787#comment-71590 And I forgot to add a link to a slashdot comment about the propaganda words:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1299791&cid=28666659

]]> http://techrights.org/2009/07/29/blackboard-loses-again/comment-page-1/#comment-71589 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:39:56 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=15787#comment-71589 “All these propaganda terms need to be dropped.”
Many of these are listed in FSF’s list of words to avoid:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html
““Intellectual monopoly” is still being described as “intellectual property” and there are even many Web sites that use this term in their name.”
Yep, that term and the ideas associated with it is loaded with problems:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080306/003240458.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080219/014250290.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090719/0108125588.shtml
There was even a video added to beginning of DVDs comparing piracy to shoplifting and other things. The developer of the Windows-only VirtualDub complained about it:
http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=204

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