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[Paul Whitacre <yort1024@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nicholas,

Overall, I felt your points are very good.

I would only disagree with the first sentence in the last paragraph
"Ubuntu itself is a flavor of Linux that is an attempt to create an
operating system that can overthrow the Microsoft Windows operating
system as the most used operating system in the world of computers."  I
know that is a stated goal of Ubuntu, but in reality, I don't see that
happening.

Also,  there are negatives to going with Ubuntu, albeit, they can be
dealt with.  As a user, the one that I have experienced, is the lack of
driver support for hardware - video boards, printers, scanners, etc.   A
compilation of existing hardware and compatibility with Ubuntu should be
done early on in a study.

Another would be whether there are software applications for your
business, or do they need to be developed.

Paul

On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 10:34 -0400, Nicholas Lawson wrote:
> Ubuntu OH: 
> 
>  
> 
> I am working on generating a small amount of literature for the
> function at Media Bridges and have been trying  to download my
> thoughts into a cohesive form for dissemination to my Public Media
> Community. I would be interested to know how you feel about the
> following paragraphs and whether or not you think I as a non developer
> understand the premises that your FOSS community adheres to:
> 
> 
> Do you agree with the following and if not what would you change and
> why?
> 
>  
> 
> Open Source Introduction:
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>  
> 
> The Open Source Mindset is one of altruism. It is an efficient mindset
> that channels ones talents and abilities into a community in extremely
> pragmatic and organized fashion. Here at Media Bridges we are
> interested in becoming immersed into this Open Source Community and
> would like to embrace the mindset and the culture that the Open Source
> world adheres to. The main point that I would like to stress when
> organizatinonally enterting into a relationship with the FOSS
> commuinty and to realize that you and your organization can itself
> become involved in the community and influence the direction that the
> software evolves in. Embrace the idea of fostering relationships with
> the developers who are creating your software and think more community
> and less retail. Retail software wants your money and wants to give
> you software and then that is the end of the transaction. The Open
> Source Software community is much different. You can download the
> software you think is good for you, email the developers and get
> direct feedback from the creators and then you could for instance send
> them a small gift thanking them for their work and intermingle with
> them in the IRC Chatrooms that they frequent. You can enter into a
> relationship with the FOSS community where the retail software world
> has more proprietary secrets to hold back from you the FOSS world has
> no barriers to their information.
> 
>  
> 
> FOSS gives you access to all of the source code that is available for
> a piece of software and if you so choose and have the ability you can
> alter the code to serve your needs and then you can offer your changes
> to the FOSS community in the spirit of sharing your improvements with
> others who may be interested in the same solutions as yourself. The
> Open Media Project is an example of this ethic at work in the Public
> Media world where Drupal has been chosen as a Content Management
> System. Over the last three years the Community Media Community has in
> pockets been creating a set of online components that add
> functionality to the Drupal CMS in such a way that crews can be
> managed and developed for production, equipment can be organized for
> distribution, and distribution schedules can be arranged by the
> community. The FOSS community and its ethics allows for a number of
> stations to collaborate and create solutions among them that make
> their lives easier and because the product is information management
> once the solution is found and developed it is then instantly
> available to all participating parties and is even available to all
> non participating parties. The FOSS is interesting because it exists
> outside of the world of high finance. It would seem that originally
> before the internet was developed it was necessary for pockets of
> programmers to work in conjunction with each other in close quarters
> in order to develop software because they needed a way to communicate
> and learn from each other and they needed appropriated space to do
> this hence Microsoft and IBM. With the advent of the internet these
> collectives could be competed with by pockets of programmers using the
> internet as their organizing catalyst with the intent of developing
> solutions that exist in spaces where finance is not necessary to
> deliver quality concepts. Linux is an example of a product that has
> been created by a community of developers using the tools available to
> them. 
> 
>  
> 
> Ubuntu itself is a flavor of Linux that is an attempt to create an
> operating system that can overthrow the Microsoft Windows operating
> system as the most used operating system in the world of computers.
> The reason why it makes sense that this is not unachievable is because
> the software operates on FOSS principles. These principles when
> adhered to allow for the highest levels of innovation and quality
> production because the entire community that accepts the FOSS
> community can become involved in the building of something essentially
> perfect. The community of Ubuntu is creating a solution that is
> already receiving high accolades and it literally has forever to
> mature and develop and on a long enough timeline the FOSS system
> overtakes all other models of software development because the FOSS
> community is operating out of altruism and is building a foundation
> for itself that is much firmer than retail volume controlled
> software. 
> 
>  
> 
> Nicholas
> 
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