Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Schools have to deliver bulk materials of high quality and broad perspective because that is the nature of the people in this country. But their are more people sharing fixed resources. It is not possible to fix it all with more sales, unless the rise in sales is accompanied by both a rise in the quantity and quality of delivered usable end user materials (i.e. "output") and cost reduction ----> (i.e. my speculation)

at the same time more and better product appears, the price drops and operating margins are maintained at reduced pricing. More for less.
Quality sells best in a bull market.

That mostly requires the creation of source material. documentataion of CASE STUDIES and
pre-empetive logging and analysis + interviews
post-mortems and a standard rate of production.

so many hours to get a result
speculate at 100-300 man-hours
with 3-4 candidates.

pick one and put in another 500 man-hours.
then issue a first release.
price it fairly.
give volume discounts.

that's how product integration in open source could happen - and it would not be a bad model to test.

so here at etc... our "first pic" is an audio/braille bootable cd-rom with a couple hundred interesting things to read.

i'll let you know how it turns out if you ask.

The CASE STUDIES should specifically address open source product integration issues. It should not become a middleware API testbed. It must focus on end user deliverables and adhere to budget and time constraints while maintaining quantity and quality of deliverable.   etc...not just an afterthought