[luau] Eric S. Raymond On ThinkTech Hawaii Radio!

[Gary Dunn]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, R. Scott Belford wrote:

> On Tuesday 18 March 2003 10:27 am, Maddog wrote:
> >
> > As such I invited Eric S. Raymond to be on our show Wednesday night and he
> 
> This is a rather rare opportunity to ask questions of one of the most 
> visionary minds in the open source movement.  I wonder if anyone has 
> questions that they wish the hosts would ask Eric this afternoon.

Today's public schools struggle with the financial burden of acquiring
adequate numbers of up-to-date textbooks. Some teachers look to web-based
delivery for relief, but face new financial challenges for commercial
on-line courseware and, free or not, the quality of the content. A
Hawaii-based open-source project called Open Slate hopes to solve these
problems through a unique combination of the open-source development model
and the long-established academic tradition of peer review.

Do you think the open-source development model can succeed in was has been
a largely for-profit textbook authoring and publication market?


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