> I agree with this in your setting, but would like to give a parallel > view in 1) the low-bandwidth and resource-starved developing world, > and 2) certain class environments, e.g. ours where the students live-in, > have no laptops, bandwidth.
> Then SAGE is not a 'viable alternative', it's all that we have. Thank you so much for providing this viewpoint. I recently did an internal paper on some of the real reasons for using open-source (or not) in my own context, and I find the "cheap" argument alone too dominant; the wider populace (at least in the US) needs to understand that FOSS makes sense for a variety of reasons, but doesn't cost zero to implement and use - your time as IT manager costs something, right? Your description of a context where computing resources in general, not just money, are a big limiting factor is one that we need to hear. Do I hear another call for Sage lite? ;) - kcrisman --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
