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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Perhaps a central repository for people to
share their Xerte resources (models, commands, templates, etc) would be a good
starting point, testing the water for if there is the appetite and support for
going open source or not. Or even a Wiki would be a good start?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Tenney Julian<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 07 March 2008 10:15<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Xerte
discussion list</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> FW: [Xerte] Linux, Mac OS
X platforms</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>As I said, we're not against open
source. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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Huskinson, S.M. [mailto:smh37@leicester.ac.uk] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 07 March 2008 09:13<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Xerte
discussion list</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Xerte] Linux, Mac OS
X platforms</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>I thought Ed:IT launching on 10th March
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Ed</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> and Learning Team Nottingham) were
open source having produced tools for Moodle - the audio recorder for example
and various other tools are contributing to Moodle development. Seems to me
that you do a lot to support open source already.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On
Behalf Of Tenney Julian [Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk]<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 06 March 2008 15:42<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Xerte
discussion list</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Xerte] Linux, Mac OS
X platforms</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>No plans for Mac / Linux at the moment,
I'm afraid. However, the file format is open, and anyone can make their own
editor for whatever platform they like.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>When I've done open source projects in
the past, I have found it to be a one way street. The promised legions of
developers who would turn up and freely give of their time to improve the code,
fix all the bugs and write the documentation never appeared. We have an open
mind about open source - we're not against it, but supporting an open source
project would require a significant investment of our time, which we don't have
right now.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>Julian</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Samuel Rose<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 06 March 2008 15:20<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Xerte] Linux, Mac OS X
platforms</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Wondering if there are any active efforts to port this to Linux, Mac OS
X?<br>
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Also, would like to cast a vote that this software code be released under GPL
copyright :)<br clear=all>
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