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Comment Re:I do it (Score 1) 1324

Why do you believe there is a wider variety of ideas available to school kids than homeschooled kids

I don't. I think homeschooling can be a great thing. But I also know that exposure to different teachers with different ways of teaching and different beliefs, as well as other children with different beliefs can also be a good thing.

The vast majority of homeschooled kids have substantially more intellectual freedom.

While this should be true, I'd say for the majority it is not. Parents take their kids out of school because they don't like what is being taught. Generally this is not an education standard (parents who care about the quality of teaching would help teach their child at home in addition to that taught in school), but an ideals standard - usually sex, religion or science.

When a parent takes a child out of class because they don't want certain topics taught to them, that is less intellectual freedom, not more. In a public school the parent and child are free to augment that teaching with whatever they like. In a home school environment, there is no such opportunity, for better or for worse.

Comment Re:Enforce? That's eeeevil! (Score 1) 480

However, if they wish to distribute it to end-users beyond themselves, then they must ensure that those end users are given the same amount of Freedom that the company received.


Does distributing said code to the company's employees count as distribution? I'm genuinely interested in this case as I used to work for a company that used and modified code licensed under the GPL to create an internal backup application that got distributed to all company employees.

I requested a copy of the source code because I wanted to tinker with the code in my own time off work and see what made the program tick. Management and the developers both refused my requests, citing some mumbo-jumbo about intellectual property rights. I didn't want to jeopardize my job at the time, so I didn't press the issue. Looking back though, can they legally do such a thing, refusing to offer up the source code to an employee to whom the program is distributed? Does the program have to be distributed outside of the company to count as real distribution?
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