I have to say, what a bunch of tight-asses we have around here. At $5-15 per disk no distro is expensive to get hold of.
> >>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). > > If I could pick up the latest disks from the local library, > install them overnight, and bring them back for the next > borrower, I would have switched to linux much sooner than I did. > > This is especially true for people who don't have the bandwidth > to download the ISOs. > > My $0.02 > > 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. -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor PO Box 25-275 Christchurch, NZ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
