The linux confs a few years ago in New York would give out free distros; Azure and I would leave with about 25 of them! Now it's different and better, just a download away.
You're right about Gutenberg! - Alan, waiting of course for the batteries to go dead, electricity to go out... On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Rob Myers wrote: > On 03/17/2011 08:05 PM, James Morris wrote: >> And what about if all the openness of the internet was lost? If the >> powers that be decided all this access to knowledge dangerous for us >> little people and giving us too many ideas. What if the powers that be >> decided to close down all our access to this stuff? >> >> You'd be left with your Ubuntu Linux system. > > s|Linux|GNU/Linux| ;-) > > GNU started in an era when network bandwidth was very limited. The FSF > used to sell tapes (the big old DAT-style tapes) of software, and there > are companies that sell DVDs of distros now. > > And there are already DVDs of subsets of Wikipedia, project Gutenberg, > and of the Open Clipart Library. Download and burn them while you can. > > So when the net is turned off we can fall back to the postal network. > And we will have more backups of sofware which is more robust. > > - Rob. > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qx.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
