Just another thought..................... How about a financial inducement for a library to subscribe to some of the Linux magazines which are available at considerable cost to the person in the street? They would then be available to all.
Barry ------------------- Chris Hellyar wrote: > > >advertising and/or perhaps donations of linux distributions to public > >libraries (such as the Wellington LUG appear to be doing at the moment)) > > Just had to comment on that one.. Being in the position of looking after > four public libraries.. > > 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. > > We're lucky in that our OPAC, and library system is technology neutral and > we're piloting using Linux on one machine, but a lot of libraries would be > tied into a particular client end package for their front end, which would > more than likely be M$ based. > > ie: Donating Linux to a library seems like a very odd thing to do.. > > On the other hand.. Donating Linux pre-installed on a PC to a school or > community group might not be so silly.. But then you need a business > partner in the deal to front with reasonable spec PC's. > > </rant> > > ###################################################################### > The contents of this e-mail message may be privileged and/or > confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the > message and notify the sender. > > Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author, and do > not necessarily represent the official position of the Selwyn District > Council > ######################################################################
