<story><title>How my school rejected an app made for students</title><url>http://theiostream.tumblr.com/post/87830445451/portoapp-a-story</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>was_hellbanned</author><text>&amp;quot;In the real world I&amp;#x27;d be sued&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Well, maybe, in the real world, if anyone even noticed, you might get sued.  It would be baseless, but you wouldn&amp;#x27;t have the resources for a court battle, so you&amp;#x27;d just tuck your tail and run.&lt;p&gt;The lesson here is that institutions can be pointlessly authoritative assholes.  Between the offended IT schmucks who were churning out their own, awful app, and the  administrative types who are seeking to cover their own asses, legally speaking, it really couldn&amp;#x27;t work out any other way.&lt;p&gt;Oh, and since they can just kick you out of school, with no meaningful recourse, you&amp;#x27;re &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; getting a lesson in what it&amp;#x27;s like to be the little innovator.</text></comment>
<story><title>How my school rejected an app made for students</title><url>http://theiostream.tumblr.com/post/87830445451/portoapp-a-story</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dethstar</author><text>&amp;quot;This goes to show that as much as schools attempt to mask the image of a great environment for students to thrive, learn enterpreneurism and so on (mine does that a lot), they’re traditionalists to the point that it doesn’t make any sense. What do they have to lose with my app? How is that classification as copyright infringement even pertinent? They apparently just must have control of anything that has anything to do with the school.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Biggest problem with education. It is not about learning how to learn, enterpreneurism or any other fun thing you could think of. Is about learning how to obey, and letting those in charge take care of things (even if they&amp;#x27;re done terribly by people who actually don&amp;#x27;t like&amp;#x2F;care for it).&lt;p&gt;edit to add something else: I think more schools should allow for software to be made by the students. They understand the needs of the other students better.</text></comment>