[ale] Notes from Jun 19th meeting

[Jim Kinney]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:

> Geoffrey wrote:
> >
> > I don't know if you were at the meeting, but the application originally
> > being discussed, Printshop comes with thousands of graphics.  Although
> > your suggestion of inkscape might be a better solution then the one
> > you've referenced, it's simply not a solution to the original problem.
>
> Wait, they can't switch because the application provides clipart? Is
> this really dire enough to veto a platform switch?


Especially with stuff like:
 http://www.openclipart.org/

A bit of tweaking and a huge collection of clip art is networked for the
entire school use.

Ditto on the "they have a license so they can use the clip art that comes
with". If the application licenses the clipart for use ONLY with their
software, they need better lawyers to review licenses before they purchase
software because they use the clipart to be viewable under anything but
their software.

>
>
> If they already have a license for this software, perhaps the artwork
> itself could simply be transferred over to linux. If that won't work,
> instead of buying the next version of this software the school district
> could buy some clipart. There might be enough good free art out there to
> make even that unnecessary. My dad is a public school teacher; one of
> his favorite parts of preparing his lessons is finding graphics online
> to catch his students' attention. (My mom is also a teacher;
> unfortunately she probably couldn't even figure out how to insert the
> clipart that comes with Microsoft Word).
>
> -Brian
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