Re: Advocacy efforts (was Re: [seul-edu] SEUL Licensing)

[Bill Ries-Knight <brk@slip.net>]

Along the lines of differing opinion, here is a nice opinion essay on Open Source.

Bill
http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/LeonBrooks/LeonBrooks7.html

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Hilaire Fernandes wrote:

>  >
>  > > I know that Doug. But i'm concerned that the two directions you take
>  > > in the same time will hurt free software spirit in education and
>  > > teaching.  I think that commercial edu soft will be ported when
>  > > GNU/Linux will spread in school and home, we don't need to advocate
>  > > for that.
>  >
>  > I think it's important for everyone on this mailing list to understand that Hilaire and I
>  > agree on 99%+ of everything to do with Linux in education, and that this discussion is
>  > based on slightly divergent views of where our efforts should be focussed.  We have great
>  > respect for each other (back me up on this, Hilaire :-) ).
>
> Yes, we take different approach to fix the problem - lack of free edu
> soft. And we can cooperate in many field where we agree.
>
> One things useful is a compilation of free software useable in school
> and education but easy to be installed and used. This means binary-rpm
> and automatic installation in the desktop menu, mime-types.
> (http://www.ofset.org/project/edusoft/edusoft.html).
>
> I know several group has start similar project, so how can we
> cooperate?
>
> Hilaire