On Monday 08 October 2007, Stephen Williams wrote: > As for using open-source software as lab material, there are > institutional barriers that even professors have trouble > with, so that's tougher.
Those "institutional barriers" are mostly other professors. Another big one is the "free" (meaning cripple-ware) software provided with texts. Texts are often written around specific software, often at the insistence of the publisher against the author's wishes, based on the claim that the particular software is needed to market the book. It's time to make a set of wiki-books, that use truly free/open-source software, and use it effectively. Then we market it to the students, and let them sell it to the professors. There's a need for Libre/open-source hardware too. I see a business opportunity. _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
