<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/21e2a071-be8a-4726-afda-87337efc070c/F7BE6A36-9430-4F88-851A-67EB5823C1CB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mcpldwebolution.blogspot.com/2009/10/discovery-task-16-open-source-software.html" href="http://mcpldwebolution.blogspot.com/2009/10/discovery-task-16-open-source-software.html" style="font-size: 11px;">mcpldwebolution.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mcpldwebolution.blogspot.com/2009/10/discovery-task-16-open-source-software.html"><DIV> This week’s discovery task is all about exploring the concept of open source software. Whether you’re aware of what open source means or not, probably every one of us has benefited from the use of an open source software product. For example, if you use the web browser <A href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/">Mozilla Firefox</A>, you’re taking advantage of open source software. Or, if you use the email client, Thunderbird, or the Linux operating system you’re using open source software.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mcpldwebolution.blogspot.com/2009/10/discovery-task-16-open-source-software.html"><DIV>1. Read the definition of open source from the <A href="http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd">Open Source Initiative </A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mcpldwebolution.blogspot.com/2009/10/discovery-task-16-open-source-software.html"><DIV>2. Log on to a library public computer and practice using Open Office Writer. Or download the <A href="http://www.openoffice.org/">Open Office</A> package to your staff computer. How do you think Writer compares to MS Word?</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F7BE6A36-9430-4F88-851A-67EB5823C1CB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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