Slashdot Mirror
Open Source Book a Collective Effort
Hairy1 writes "The New Zealand Open Source Society has begun a project to write a book to put the case for open source use in business and government. There is a need for a book which clearly puts the case for using open source, and provides a clear migration plan. Already five authors and several reviewers have stepped forward to commit time to writing the book. However, other authors and reviewers would be welcome to join the project."
Is mastaer English hard to you for?
A free trip to my cock!!! You know you wanna suck it hard!!!
I read thru the prerelease versions of this manual but was very suprised & disapointed to see a strong bias against many well known and popular case studies that include Linux as the primery variable in the software+hardware ``equation".
I think that with all the amazing examples of Linux powering powerful business to business and Web portal shopping sites, it'd be a simple tale to examinne Linux in the ``real" corporate enviorment as opposed to the very theoritecial and academic feel to the current manual page.
Linux just plain works for all businesses ---- so lets use it to our advantage. Stop getting general and get more specific?!
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
When I think about the type of medias that *really* have a strong influence on the children of future generations, I imediately think of music. Music has the power to transend generation gaps, skin types, and academic qualifications.
I would very much enjoy to participate in a collaborative musical score of this workin' progress so that those who believe in Linux can generate music that convinces other to believe in Linux as well. I'm imagining a complicated musical score along with tintelateing lyrical gestures ----- we need to capture the top-40 listeners of today with the power of open source music and Linux especially!
Linux is a winner ------- we already know that ---- but we need to shower others the beuty of the current *nix platform.
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
OK I just finished the whole thing but its so bad that I can almost guarentee is wasnt even written in Linux.
There are various past participles (not good) and the nature of having a book w// various (5 or 6) diffrent authors really shows here. The tone and overall complexity of the writing varies greatly and its obvious that it's writing isn't the most top-quality stuff I've ever seen here in academia.
We need to diversity our views, but at the same time ensure that it's all written in the same: 1) 3rd person voice... 2) shoot for an 11th grade writing level soasnot to use grammar too complex for those who haven't graduated yet... and finally 3) as I mentioned above, throw in some real world examples, such as Slashdot running on Linux on a 133Mhz box with 70000 pages loaded per day back when it first started ---- now THAT really shows Liunix's power!!1
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
_____,-,_-,, = =___Unknown
____{_/_/__\______________________,-_,
___{_`}'-_-/_____=-=-=-=-=-=-=___/__\_\
___{_}/\_o/______The_GONAD-MAN___\o_o`)
_______}__{______=-=-=-=-=-=-=____\0_/
___/_#\__"/_#\___1/2_Man__________}__{___
__/_/###\/###_\__2/3_Horse____/___\"__/__\
_/_/_\##/\##/\_\_=-=-=-=-=-=-/_/_.____._\_\
{_!___}____{__!_}___________/_/\________/\_\
_\_\__}__._{_/_/___________{_!__\______/__!_}
__\_\/______\_/_____________\_\__|_()_|_/__/
___j{########}t______________\_\/__||__\_/
____{__\`##/_}________________j{___||___}t
_____\____\_/_________________/____||____\
______\____Y_________________/____{||}____\
_______`,___\_______________;__/_/(__)\_\__;
________{`___}_____________(___/'______`\___)
________{'__/______________&_//__________\\_&
________;=//______________/_/'____________`\_\
_______;__/______________/\_)______________(_/\
______,__,______________/_.'________________`._\
_____(,_\_____________,y_,'__________________`,_y
_____|\__;___________=='________________________`
I HATE SLASHDOT!I HATE SLASHDOT!I HATE SLASHDOT!I HATE SLASHDOT!I HATE SLASHDOT!I HATE SLASHDOT!I HATE SLASHDOT!I HATE SLASHDOT!I HATE SLASHDOT!I HATE SLASHDOT!I HATE SLASHDOT!I HATE SLASHDOT!I HATE SLASHDOT!I HATE SLASHDOT!I HATE SLASHDOT!I HATE SLASHDOT!I HATE SLASHDOT!I HATE SLASHDOT!