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Story: Anti-Piracy Patent Stops Students From Sharing TextbooksTotal Replies: 7
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kenjennings

Jun 14, 2012
10:51 AM EDT 		How can someone patent lending?

Does anyone else remember when the primary goal of educators was to teach kids, rather than to become published authors?
Fettoosh

Jun 14, 2012
12:14 PM EDT
Quoting:How can someone patent lending?


Better yet, how can they enforce it?

I would never take any of his courses. And if I had no option, I would go to another U.
tuxchick

Jun 14, 2012
12:20 PM EDT 		Textbooks have been scammy since forever. They're overpriced, and then new editions are released with minor changes and students required to buy them, rather than borrowing an older edition or buying it used.
skelband

Jun 14, 2012
1:17 PM EDT 		What boggles my mind is that someone with the title "professor" thinks that this is a good idea.

I'm not sure that this is a good predictor of his competency to teach anything that I want to know.
alc

Jun 14, 2012
4:25 PM EDT 		"Does anyone else remember when the primary goal of educators was to teach kids, rather than to become published authors?"

Published authors are making more money. Teaching kids is only for those new teachers that don't know any better.
BernardSwiss

Jun 14, 2012
7:57 PM EDT 		Obligatory link to Stallman's distopian short story:

The Right to Read

http://www.upword.com/right-to-read.html (nicely formated)

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html (gnu.org)
tracyanne

Jun 14, 2012
9:38 PM EDT 		RMS is looking more and more like a prophet all the time. Both figuratively and literally.
skelband

Jun 15, 2012
1:26 AM EDT 		@ta: Truly.

But a lot of what he has said many years prior is all too familiar these days.....

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