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Story: Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools
Posted by: Anonymous (Sunday 15 January 2006, 10:09 AM)
The way ahead is simple. Just adopt OpenOffice on windows, keeping this OS temporarily. Then you have freedom in terms of money and freedom (in terms of speech, since every pupil can have their own copy. You will be free from the pressure of a costly upgrade when the vendor deliberately changes the format to induce you to buy a new copy. Having cut the dependency on MS Office it will be easy to move tp Linux or Mac in the future. Its key that the curriculum should NOT require specifc product but spreadsheets and word processing in general terms.
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Story: Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools
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Micro$oft is too expensive. Wow - what a revelati... Anonymous -
The way ahead is simple. Just adopt OpenOffic... Anonymous -
To install software in schools that isnt... Jon -
MS file formats are the landmine buried for the ki... Olavi Petri
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Name a older Microsoft format that cant be re... Jon
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Agree with the comment above about geekw... Alan
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Microsoft got rich by a combination... Jon -
I agree with the opendocument... Anonymous
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Jon,
My college stuff on Works 3.1 Stop... jono
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Vista already has virus patches and it i... Ron Norris
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I'm in agreement that MS products a... Chris Ferguson
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Microsoft licences too expensive, say sc... 1000332296
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I agree. Macs are a much less costly option. Of co... Ron Norris
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I don't know whether the Competition beaurocrat in... Chris Goodman
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Kingsoft Office Replaces Micrsoft Office, simply Roca Haslet
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