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  • From: tom poe <tompoe AT renonevada.net>
  • To: schoolforge-discuss AT schoolforge.net
  • Cc: "CommStudios" <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>, "Reno_Perl_Group" <renotahoe-pm AT pm.org>
  • Subject: [Community_studios] Re: Re: [school-discuss] Britannica
  • Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 15:52:35 -0700

On Tuesday 28 May 2002 14:16, you wrote:
> Those out there that do not believe a port of Britannica should be done
> must also believe that WINE should be dumped... both allow the use of
> proprietary software on Linux. I have been at this for over 30 years, and I
> have found that one should use the best tool for the job, not a tool based
> on "ideology". (Although I must admit I did not start with this attitude.)
> Do not curse the darkness (proprietary software), light a candle (write a
> BETTER tool\app that is open source).
>
> KLP

Karl: Calm down. This is not about rejecting Brittanica. This is about
Brittanica "using" free programmers to build a proprietary version of
software. If Brittanica is written in Java, it is portable already to
Unix/linux. That's the nature of the programming language. If they want to
"port" it to linux, all they have to do is run the "package" code. Since
they don't, there's really nothing anyone can do to help them. Now, as to
ideology, just what is it about Brittanica that is causing you so much pain?
Are children suffering because there is no way to access particular
information? I suspect the BETTER tool/app that is open source is already
out there. It's called the Internet. And, a class that wants to access the
Internet and gather reliable, accurate, up-to-the-minute encyclopedic
information can do no better than to collectively report their findings and
share their discoveries with their classmates. Heck of a lot cheaper, too.
Thanks,
Tom Poe
Reno, NV
http://www.studioforrecording.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/
http://renotahoe.pm.org/




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