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Virginia Releases First Open-Source Textbook
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| Open-source software and hardware are common elements of the technological
| world. And now the ancient counterparts to these modern products, written
| books, have finally jumped the gap into open waters as well. Virginia's
| currently accepting public comments for its first-ever open-source school
| textbook, "21st Century Physics FlexBook: A Compilation of Contemporary and
| Emerging Technologies."
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http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/virginia_releases_first_opensource_textbook_830
An open source textbook is more than a book
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| The release of an “open source” physics textbook by the state of Virginia is
| a serious milestone.
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| I put the words “open source” in quotes because, while the work has a
| Creative Commons attribution license and was built using open source tools,
| its chapters are all bylined and it was done with strict peer review.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3673
Related:
Thompson Targets Microsoft in Latest Crusade
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| Mr. Gates, your company is potentially legally liable the harm done at
| Virginia Tech. Your game, a killing simulator, according to the news that
| used to be in the Post, trained him to enjoy killing and how to kill.
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http://www.gamealmighty.com/story-individual/story/Thompson_Targets_Microsoft_in_Latest_Crusade/
West Virginia Open for Business to VistA, RPMS and Other Open Source Healthcare
Solutions
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| The Governor's strategic plan for improving health care in West Virginia was
| just completed and published in April 2007.
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| The Medlynks electronic health record (EHR) system is a multi-tier
| client/server solution deployed on a cluster of Hewlett-Packard (HP) servers
| running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system software.
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http://www.hoise.com/vmw/07/articles/vmw/LV-VM-09-07-12.html
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