[vox-outreach] 2nd Draft - letter to schools

[Nicole TWN]

MHO only

At 10:07 PM 10/17/2003, you wrote:
>What is known as the 'Open Source' software movement began over 20
>years ago as a formalization of the tradition of sharing information
>that computer programmers had been doing since the 1960s.  Software


...a formalization of the information-sharing tradition...
(reduces string of prep. phrases)

>that is released under an Open Source license is available freely to
>everyone.  The human readable source code behind the program is


...freely available...


>* Extensibility
>   Authors of Open Source software are often amazed at the kinds of uses
>   other people come up with for their work.  Apple recently replaced

..amazed at the uses other people find for their work...


>   Microsoft's Internet Explorer in Mac OS X with their own web browser,


In their Mac OS X operating system, Apple replaced Microsoft's Internet 
Explorer browser with their own browser, based...

Sounds great, Bill.  What a good idea this is.

--nicole twn