[Marketing] A letter to the governor of CA

[Sean DALY]

I'd certainly be the last person to suggest we support any kind of
Digital Restrictions Management

For more on my personal views:
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=2008092617563728

:D

Sean



On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Bryan Berry<bryan at olenepal.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 09:12 +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
>> Yes, I want to be opportunistic about this.
>>
>> At the very least we can raise visibility for Sugar.
>>
>> Our reading offer is a little fragmented (Read, Read ETexts, FBReader?
>> InfoSlicer for assembling content) but that's not really a problem.
>>
>> Where we might hit a bump is publishers insisting on DRM schemes or suchlike.
>>
>> Sean
>
> Then don't accept their DRM code into the Sugar tree. Make them maintain
> their own branch or write their freedom-hating code on top of Sugar.
>
> We have to be agnostic on letting people or companies use Sugar for
> their own purposes, whether learning physics or worshipping the devil.
> The core first step to advancing Open-Source is getting people to use
> it. Only once they are using it can we help them understand the
> open-source philosophy, before then it is likely to fall on deaf ears.
>
> The key to selling Sugar and Open-Source in general to the private
> sector -- the guys who __will__ win these contracts, is to convince them
> they need to move from selling education products to selling education
> services. If they still have the mindset of selling "textbooks" digital
> or otherwise, it will be impossible to sell them on open-source. But if
> we sell them providing educational services to states and counties,
> open-source will be an asset to them.
>
> OK, I have to get back to QA now
>
>
> --
> Bryan W. Berry
> Technology Director
> OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
>
>