FLOSS text books (was Re: Representative Seth Cohn)

[Alan Johnson]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Mike Bilow <mikebw at colossus.bilow.com>wrote:

> Open source software is all well and good, but if you want to really
> scare the crap out of people and shake things up in a state legislature,
> start talking about open source _textbooks_ as well:
>
> http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2008/09/open-source-tex/
>
> -- Mike
>

Very nice!  But, why does this need to be a commercial venture?  Why not
follow the wikipedia model?  Something a little tighter for editing would be
needed, but consider the volume and quality of information that is already
there.  I expect much of that would provide a good base for
converting/developing into textbook/tutorial format.  Heck, the wikipeida
guys out to just do it.  I don't mean to over simplify the effort, but it
seems like a reasonable next step.
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