-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 25-04-2005 16:58, Gjermund Skogstad wrote: > mandag 25. april 2005, 10:36, skrev Jonas Smedegaard: > >>On 25-04-2005 09:02, Gjermund Skogstad wrote: >>>the [reason] I used in vain when fighting >>>(and loosing) the issue of whether Skolelinux should become debian-edu. >>>I'm not about to raise this issue again, that issue is fought and is now >>>history and the batlle is definitely lost. There is however a simple >>>truth within this old history of a lost battle (and please take note): >>>You can't fit the world on a CD, It won't even fit on a DVD. (I know this >>>because I've tried!) >> >>Do you refer to the choice of name for the organisation or something else? >> > > The mandate of Skolelinux was changed from something like "making a GNU/Linux > based solution for Norwegian public schools" into something like "making a > GNU/Linux based solution for all the worlds schools which complies with the > Debian Social Contract". > > Add to this the tension created by Norwegian school-authorities being eager > to > base certain key services[1] on technology where OSS still is lagging behind, > and it becomes more interesting than confortable. (At least for us > Norwegians.) > > This conflict of interest can't continue for very long, and I hope we'll find > an alternative solution to both "unfree-source" and Windows before then. But > I'm not betting on it.
Thanks for the summary! >>I assume it is only a matter of pointing me to the right spot in public >>mailinglist archives or published minutes of a physical meeting. I don't >>want to discuss it again, just want to understand. >> > > It has been discussed on our mailing-list(s). > I can't point you to any specific part of our mail-lists; in part because > it's > some time ago, and othervise because of me repressing the case from active > memory. There's some mentioning of this transition on > [EMAIL PROTECTED] in 2002 and 2003. However, as I was part of > Skolelinux' bord from summer 2003 to summer 2004, it might have been > something debated on the bords mail-list. > If the latter proves to be the case then the debate would not be publicly > available. I have been subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] myself for some time, but don't recall this discussion. That might simply be my memory failing, but whatever the reason, your email now has reveiled the topic also to non-norwegian speaking participants of this (now) global project. Thanks alot! - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nÃr: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCbQn6n7DbMsAkQLgRAkxKAJ9kfooEtnujWbjgp/CqZJxUhw+ZtQCgpfCH RSpk0HYaqGboa6fBgTOfA4g= =2wvd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
