Re: [OS:N:] For reference http://www.go-opensource.co.za/

Anil Srivastava <anil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:35:16 -0700

There is another aspect of the problem to be considered when it comes 
down to downloading in developing countries. People cannot depend on 
the connection and download being interrupted and having to start all 
over again, therefore, the availability of the basic OS software would 
be a convenience across the world.
An idea comes to my mind. A consensus amongst all of us on what is the 
basic open source software that should be put on a CD. Then an image 
being created and made available. Institutions (including companies) 
could then download the image, burn CDs with their labels, and that 
being made available through nonprofit institutions in developing 
countries free of cost.

Anil Srivastava
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On Sep 20, 2004, at 10:23 AM, Kevin Cole wrote:
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:16:59PM -0400, Bort Vern wrote:
I would consider helping to find money to fund such a project to
provide limited copies of the "Open CD" in the US, but I would tend
to believe that the money could be better spent elsewhere as all of
the software is available for download and network connections in
the United States are more ubiquitous here (not completely, but
better than South Africa).

The problem, it seems to me, is that a lot of vaguely curious people
aren't willing to make even the effort required to download stuff --
often because they aren't confident that they would be able do it
correctly, or because they've heard all sorts of horror stories about
downloading viruses, etc -- whereas if you hand them a halfway
decent-looking CD, they'll at least pop it into their machines and
have a look.  They've figured out CD's, and are less suspicious
(rightly or not) of infection from such sources.
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