[Textbook-l] Introduction - California Open Source Textbook Project

[Sanford Forte]

Toby,

Brilliant! The UN needs you. ;)
Sanford
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Toby Bartels" <toby+wikipedia at math.ucr.edu>
To: <textbook-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Textbook-l] Introduction - California Open Source Textbook
Project


> It's rather disturbing to see the Wikimedia/COSTP collaboration
> in danger of being torn apart, before it begins, over ideology.
>
> If Wikimedia produces a free textbook geared towards CA schools,
> then let the State of CA print it in a state-run publishing company.
> (One already exists, BTW -- the University of California Press.)
> Jimbo can't stop them, and if he loves the GNU notion of freedom,
> then he won't try.
>
> If Wikimedia produces a free textbook geared towards CA schools,
> then let private publishing companies compete to print it.
> Sanford can't stop them, and if he loves the GNU notion of freedom,
> then he won't try.
>
> To be sure, Jimbo may lobby CA to stay out of the publishing business
> (or rather to get out of it -- it already prints quite a few items),
> and Sanford may lobby CA to print more material of civic use,
> and on this matter they will doubtless be bitter enemies.
> But in creating the content to begin with, they can be great friends.
>
> Let us all be friends.  Let us create the textbooks in collaboration,
> setting aside the issue of who in the end will mass-print them --
> because we can't stop the wrong guy from doing it anyway!
>
> Jimmy Wales wrote:
>
> >Freedom works.
>
> Amen to that!
>
>
> -- Toby
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