Just a suggestion: for an educational and/or community outreach program, maybe PLUG, with the contribution of various or single distro from willing members, can donate free Linux CDs to schools and barangays. It's also an awareness program to promote free software and its benefits, maybe our way of fighting software piracy. Think about it, mapa-pirate pa ba yan? Libre na nga eh :)
On 4/26/05, Juan Carlos Miguel De Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, there have been several attempts at free distribution of linux > CD's, but the cost has always been the determining factor. You might want to > see freelinuxcd.org. It's a very worthy idea, but very hard to implement. > > Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:37:16 +0800 > From: Joseph Ross Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [plug] Re: Ubuntu CD Distibution > To: The Main Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Discussion List > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > >I think it would be nice if opensource orgs would start shipping cd's > >for free. =) > >I really like what ubuntu is doing to distribute the distro. Broadband > >is not available to most people in the philippines and will remain so > >for quite sometime(I guess). Oh well, maybe more help from Opensource > >companies will jump start this. Ey! or a spread a distro cd shipping > >community site! hmmm.... > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Tito Mari Francis H. Esca�o Computer Engineer and GNU/Linux Proponent _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
