[Gllug] It is not Microsoft

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:45:57AM +0000, Chris Bell wrote:

>    The council has provided courses for many years through the "Adult
> Learning" and Ealing Library services.
>    The Hanwell Community Centre (a listed old school building, once attended
> by Charlie Chaplin) is about to undergo a 2,000,000 renovation, and Ealing
> Council has also set aside 350,000 to convert five? of the largest and best
> classrooms to a Microsoft Only "Learning Suite", to be used by Council staff
> during the working day but be available to others at other times.

How much time/effort do you want to spend on this ?

You could get them to justify their position. They might well cite 'demand',
in which case can you demonstrate a demand for FLOSS knowledge ?

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