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I know someone (Diana Freeman) who writes educational software and I wrote to her to ask if she could let me have some for the meet. I mentioned that open source software is preferred. I had a reply (which took the form of an html file attachment with a copy of my request at the end but that is the subject of a different thread). Diana markets an educational geographic information system called AEGIS 3 (for details go to http://www.advisory-unit.org.uk, click on software then AEGIS 3). In addition she writes: "Tony, Thank you for thinking of the Advisory Unit's software. The software we produce is in C++ to MS Windows standards, so will run on a Windows station with a Linux server. We can supply demo disks for your meeting if you would like them. Unfortunately, however much we would like to embrace the open source philosophy, we have to eat! We do provide some free content (AEGIS worksheets) and encourage our users to share their own content (developed with the full program) with us and other schools. The demo version will allow users to run these AEGIS worksheets." Is it not a common fallacy that open source means you don't eat? What should I say to her? Are the demo disks of interest? Tony Sumner -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.