5 ms·
Unfortunately they are protecting the name of the software company. It is sad that they could not extend the same courtesy to their student.
by JupiterMoon 11y ago
Unfortunately they are protecting the name of the software company. It is sad that they could not extend the same courtesy to their student.
- danielweber 11y agoIs there some version of the article that names the student that 4 or 5 people have read? Or are people just seeing the name of the Licensing Officer at CERN and confusing it with the student's name?
- JupiterMoon 11y agoOh they are not telling us her name. They must be telling the company if they are to extract the payment from her though.
- sellweek 11y agoNot really, the university may have paid it and then get the money from the student.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoWell then the student would do well to not pay and to force the University to take them to court over the speculative invoice. Good luck getting undergraduate students to the University that will give itself the reputation as the enforcement arm of a copyright claim. (NB that in the EU no matter what the University blusters they cannot prevent graduation over unpaid charges.) I am not a lawyer.
- sbuk 11y agoRTFA. Ph.D "student". There is no 'graduation' as such. The university can refuse to accept the submission.
- tripzilch 11y ago> The university can refuse to accept the submission. They could try. I've seen HUGE fusses being thrown over way more reasonable refusals than this.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoYes there is a graduation as such for Ph.D. students -- it's not such a big deal seeing as it happens post viva/defence and many students don't turn up in person however it is still required to get the piece of paper that says Doctor of Philosophy on it. Submission tends to be covered by laws as well.
- sbuk 11y agoThey haven't named the student concerned. RTFA.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoThey must be telling the company her name if the charge is to be passed on. Otherwise she can simply not pay. I have read the article please do not swear at me even in acronym form.
- sbuk 11y agoTFA refers to the student several times as 'him'. Again, RTFA.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoIn general people use "him" as a replacement for "him/her". Other people use the pronoun "her" to combat the implicit assumption that people must be male. Since they are not identifying the student in this blog post one cannot ascertain the sex of the student from the fact that blog post uses the word "him". My use of the word "her" had nothing to do with any fucking.
- cezary 11y agoLooks like we need a new word to identify male if "him" no longer works.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoWell... in JupiterMoon's defense, the word is overloaded (in the C++ sense). We use "him" for "male", and also (historically) for "person of unspecified/unknown gender". Now, we're more using "her" for "person of unspecified/unknown gender", but the problem remains: We've got three states (male, female, and unknown/unspecified), and only two words (him and her). No matter what, there's going to be this kind of problem, until we come up with a third word. (People have suggested "they" or "them", but I don't like it because of singular/plural issues.)