Yes I took it the way Yuri did that they were donating distros to be lent out of the library. I joined he Wellington mailing list just this past sunday and only caught the tail end of a thread regarding what they were doing with this idea. I will see if I can work our how to get in to the Wellylug archive at yahoo groups this weekend to see if I can go back and find out more.
Nick E On Wednesday 31 October 2001 21:04, Yuri DeGroot wrote: > >>advertising and/or perhaps donations of linux distributions to > >>public libraries (such as the Wellington LUG appear to be doing > >>at the moment)) > > > >What a bizarre thing to do... It'd be a long shot that Linux > >would be used if donated to a library. Libraries are part of > >councils, and councils by nature are slow moving, bureaucratic > > > >>beasts with ingrained culture. > > Chris, not for libraries to use on their own systems, but to put > on their shelves for borrowers to take home, install, and return > the disks by the due date. > > This would require a purely free distro (no proprietary pkgs). > > Yuri > > > > This message may contain privileged and confidential information. If you > are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that > any use, distribution or reproduction of this message is prohibited. If > you have received this message in error please notify the sender or Natural > Gas Corporation immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those > of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of > Natural Gas Corporation of New Zealand Ltd (NGC), On energy, or any of > NGC's subsidiaries or related companies.
