Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (292 mails)

[Michael Brown <mbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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