RH9 disks on the net.

[Aaron Howell]

Those who have done the RHCE will know that we have to sign an NDA during the exam stating that we will not discuss any part of the exam
with anyone (we weren't even supposed to discuss what we'd done over lunch with our fellow exam participants).
legally, I can't tell you even what format the exam takes, the only information available to you as a non RHCE is what RedHat offers on its website describing the course and exam.
There is no reason at all that this NDA could not be extended to cover no disribution of the material you are given, even if its in electronic form.
After all, I _could_ scan the training material and drop the result on the web,
but you can bet RedHat would have me up before a copyright tribunal before I could say bookshare.org.
Their refusal to provide material in electronic format is pure laziness, and has nothing to do with the increased likelihood of distribution to non RHCE participants.
After all, A simple signature on a form promising I wouldn't distribute it landed me a nice accessible version of the Sun Solaris 7 System Admin training notes.
if Sun can do it, there's no reason RedHat can't, and Sun didn't even fight about it.
Regards
Aaron
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 03:47:21PM -0700, Darrell Shandrow wrote:
> Hi Tommy,
> 
> First, if Red Hat participates in anything that is government funded, then
> there may very well be a basis in law for requiring it to provide a
> reasonable accomodation such as electronic text.  Second, proper ethics and
> morals require the human treatment of blind customers.  Part of such
> treatment would be to provide reasonable accomodations by including
> electronic copies of all material that is provided in print to the sighted.
> If it is provided in print, then it should be provided in at least one
> accessible format for those for whom blindness prohibits the reading of
> print.  Anything less is simply not acceptable.  Please keep in mind that
> numerous solutions were provided to Red Hat staff to insure the integrity of
> its copyrights; Red Hat staff appeared to be totally disinterested in all
> such possibilities.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tommy Moore" <tmoore at cmrc.org>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 3:30 PM
> Subject: Re: RH9 disks on the net.
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:03:19PM -0700, Darrell Shandrow wrote:
> > > I am aware of at least two instances where electronic materials were
> > > requested and denied, while sighted participants received print copies.
> >
> > Evening Darrell.  Red Hat does not have to provide their materials in
> > electronic form just because the fact that your blind and can not read
> > the printed ones.
> >
> > I myself would like them to do so, but there's not any law that says
> > they must.  Until there's a way to give the books in electronic form
> > to people with out having to worry about people copying it and sending
> > it to others not all publishers will be willing to hand out electronic
> > copies of their materials.
> >
> > Tommy
> 
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