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Re: [Fsfe-uk] education sector
From: |
Neil Darlow |
Subject: |
Re: [Fsfe-uk] education sector |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:58:55 +0100 |
Hi Martin,
On Monday 01 Jul 2002 21:37, Martin WHEELER wrote:
> You will be amazed at just how hard and dirty this animal will fight --
> particularly in the UK education sector, where perception of non-M$
> products is virtually nil, and a virtual state of war usually exists
> between ICT support staff and knowledgeable students with a copy of
> Tom's Root/Boot in their shirt pocket. (This sort of situation does not
> help the reputation of restriction-free software one little bit, btw.)
A somewhat bigger challenge would be to get the examination boards to
acknowledge, in their sylabii, that Office solutions other than M$ Word and
Excel exist. I can't see them rewriting the schemes of work for suites like
OpenOffice.org.
Regards,
Neil Darlow M.Sc.
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