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<li><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org">ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org</A></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: Sponsorship Funding of the LDP</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Gary Lawrence Murphy <<A HREF="mailto:garym@canada.com">garym@canada.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: 24 Oct 1999 00:21:52 -0400</li>
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<li><em>Organization</em>: TeleDynamics --- the Art of Being There</li>
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I don't mean to imply 'owe' in the sense of a gangster contract ;)
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I mean simply that if I help my neighbour clean his eavestroughs,
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he's more likely to respond favourably if I ask him to help me cut
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high branches from my trees. We have been generous to the publishers
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so it just seems neighbourly they'd respond favourably to helping the
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LDP.
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>>>>> "t" == terry <terry@animats.net> writes:
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t> I think it portrays the LDP in a favourable light to be seen to
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t> be working in association with the commercial publishing
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t> community.
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I probably get along with publishers because my purpose is to "spread
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the good word" about using Linux, and they make money transporting those
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words. Its a natural fit. If the LDP mandate is to produce the best
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quality free docs, that is just more words for the publishers to transport
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and the aims are in sync --- we have more in common with them than any
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other industry because, unlike software, we deal only in ideas. Both
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of us deal in software for wetware, not hardware.
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If I were directing the LDP, though, I'd move even closer together. I
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would have the mandate focus enclusively on Linux education. It would
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be "a project to document Linux" and say nothing about ownership. LDP
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would be a conduit where any document relating to Linux could be
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found, whether free, OPL or commercial. The LDP would be as much a
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"metadocument" as an actual repository. If it teaches Linux, it would
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be within the mandate. Where licences _permit_, I would distribute
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the contents, but even where copyright, if someone has a good book
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about a topic, I'd present community reviews and make a few bucks
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selling it through FatBrain or something.
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I'd have a long-term goal to produce The Linux Document Project, a
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cohesive and encyclopaedic web of interrelated documents which, as a
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whole, leaves no corner undocumented. It would have elements of
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Knuth's Literate Programming to fold docs into source code (also
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properly indexed and cross-referenced by the supporting docs) and
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would guide Linux projects on how to implement this into their
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process. The objective would be the science fiction world where,
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starting from any vantage point, from the Help button, from a website,
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from line 125 in smp.h, you could enter a vast repository that would
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explain via hypertext as much detail as anyone would ever care to
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explore.
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"I've been called an evil genius by whole cities of assholes, but I know
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who they are, and they are on my list" (Robert Crumb)
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Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@linux.ca>: office voice/fax: 01 519 4222723
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TCI - Business Innovations through Open Source : <A HREF="http://www.teledyn.com">http://www.teledyn.com</A>
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Canadian Co-ordinators for Bynari International : <A HREF="http://ca.bynari.net/">http://ca.bynari.net/</A>
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Moderator, Linux Education Group: <A HREF="http://www.egroups.com/group/linux-ed">http://www.egroups.com/group/linux-ed</A>
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