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Re: Major interview



Roger:

I will check your document out. Any changes / suggestions I will send to
you for inclusion in the original doc.

Regards.

Roger Dingledine wrote:
> 
> > - I am of the opinion that the OpenSource movement will NOT succeed in
> > the educational arena unless and until we all embark on a Public
> > Relations campaign to convince educators that the OSS movement can
> > safely get them off their Microsoft-induced "upgrade or perish" drug
> > habit.
> 
> Take a look at
> http://www.seul.org/pub/fsib.html
> This is a document I wrote a while ago, still in need of a bit of work,
> that tries to explain how the free software model is actually better for
> 'normal people'. It mostly approaches it from the angle of businesses,
> but the arguments could be adapted to the educational medium.
> It's less a new work and more of a summary of other works that are already
> out there, but never all in the same document.
> So far, when people ask me what this free software argument is all about,
> I point them at this document and they come back with "Ah! I understand.
> That's a good idea."
> Let me know what you think, and feel free to take it and run with it in
> whatever direction you feel appropriate. :)
> 
> --Roger

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