On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
hi all in an attempt to 'put off' the impending flamefest,
That's a good word - I must remember that one :-)
However, i made a comment to Michael today that i thought that he was putting his point of view too strongly, as an individual and without any form of mandate. <snip> i am really dissappointed about his comments on free speech in the context of this list.
I am only going to make one comment on this: where speech is free, an individual should not require a "mandate" (i.e. some form of external approval) in order to put forward an individual point of view. Request followups to private e-mail or /dev/null please - this must by now be off-topic! :-)
in the last couple of years i have become a realist and see the way forward for Linux/Open Source in education as offering realistic solutions.
Sounds sensible to me.
yours freely (as in speech and a bottle of Hoegarten) Malcolm
Can we twist the interpretaion of that to mean that RedHat's buying the first round at the next meeting? ;-) Michael