fredag 26. mars 2004, 12:29, skrev Hilaire Fernandes: > Can't the non-free software be moved in an additionnal non-free > CD-ROM? That way we could keep happy everyone.
Would it? This is not about happy. It's about suitability. If the teacher loses the CD, they will find the correct CD, not the #2. One CD is easy to distribute in a computer magazine. The one CD strategy is about simplicity. When introducing 2 or more CD's we complicate the road to or main goal. Instead of just installing the system, we have to switch CD's and so on. We get stuck in questions about how to download two CD. The voluntary acceptance of Skolelinux should give us some credit here :-) http://www.skolelinux.no/testskoler/map/skolelinux-norway.png Why this choice? We have some experience with what questions we will get if we introduce an other CD just because of some political issues. We don't want that kind of questions because we have a greater cause. We aren't against a lot of software vendors, we are strongly committed to support free software and spread it out. Opera shows how to include others that don't follows the open source business model. Every time somebody attack Skolelinux to be to idealistic and bad for business in a MS FUD-way (and believe me they do even if their own job is more in jeopardy bacause of huge governmental tax-cuts which cut's a lot of jobs in public sector), we just answer that Microsoft is invited to do the same as Opera: to make their product runnable on Free Software with open standards. We don't know why this is so difficult for a company with Microsoft resources when a small Norwegian company does it? In our perspective the Microsoft-FUD will be stopped at the doorstep and we can advance further with installing Skolelinux beyond the Windows-Joe's objections. In that way it's more easy to fight down the local ICT-managers who are more interested in doing their job for Microsoft than for their users (costumers). We are not against everybody else. We are strongly supporter of free software to solve the needs in education. We have some ideas and practice on the methods in doing that without a lot of external effort with almost no money. In that respect I think the advice from Petter and Andreas should be followed. In that way we don't confirme the Windows-Joe's loudmouthed FUD by enforce unpractialities when distributing the Skolelinux CD. We just ask the question why Microsoft don't when Opera does? The most important question for us just now is to close bugs ... I cant see your name in the effort in making Skolelinux better with testing and bug-squashing activities. You effort will be appreciated! http://lwn.net/Articles/47510/ http://edu.kde.org/interviews/skolelinux.php - Knut Yrvin Projectmanager Skolelinux Norway
