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Re: Making Free Software Collection CD



 --- Jeremy Petzold <jpetzold@earthlink.net> escribió: > On Thursday 22 May
2003 10:05 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> > I am scheduled to give a presentation in one of my courses in a couple of
> > weeks.
> > I will be presenting a comparison between proprietary software licenses and
> > free software licenses.  I wanted to make up a collection of free software
> > to put on CD and duplicate to pass out to the members of the class to give
> > them something to try out.  It is a safe assumption that every single
> > person in the class is a Windows user and would not be comfortable with a
> > new OS right off the
> > bat (that rules out Knoppix).  These are the programs that I have so far
> > (all for Windows):
> >
> > OpenOffice.org v1.1Beta (becuase of the nifty extra features over 1.0.3)
> > Mozilla v1.3
> > Audacity
> > GIMP
> >
> > That covers about 90MB, so what should I put on the other 610MB?
> >
> > -Roberto Sanchez
> >
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> just give them a Knoppix cd dude. it won't hurt anything on therei machine.

I understand that it won't hurt anything, but we are talking about a bunch of
liberal arts majors (not to put them down) and they wouldn't even know what
to do with it.  I think the better route is top introduce free software that
runs on Windows.

-Roberto


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