Re: SPSS Viewer Output File Formats

[Karel Novotny]

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 08:12 +0800, John Darrington wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:00:43PM +1000, James BRANFORD wrote:
>      
>      However, for no particular reason, my lecturer is insistant that an  
>      assessment item be submitted in SPSS specific .spo or .spv viewer  
>      formats.
> 
> At my university, there is an official policy which would allow me to
> lodge a complaint against that lecturer:

*sigh*, I am afraid that's pretty specific to Australia where you have
embraced global information commons (foss, open licensing, Creative
Commons) in such a way that it is unheard of in most other countries :(

I hope this tendency will be contagious enough so that other gvts and
universities will follow the example.
> 
>   "The University will ensure that it imposes no requirement or
>   expectation on students in any discipline that would require them
>   necessarily to make use of proprietary software when a cost is
>   involved, where there are comparable Open Source packages available"

Very good formulation, thanks for sharing it.

karel

> 
>   
> [http://www.its.uwa.edu.au/policies/commspolicies/software,_applications_and_infrastructure/opens]
> 
> Perhaps your university has a similar policy?  It would be worthwhile
> checking.  Ask your guild or student services representative.
>      
> 
> If you don't get a satisfactory resolution, then I'm sure that the
> Free Software Foundation would like to hear about it. See
> http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/university-wireless.html/view?searchterm=University
> 
> J'
> 
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