[Wolves] OSS evangelism

[Sean Spencer]

Fair play to you. More power to the Penguin.

(oh sorry, I didn't introduce myself)

Sean. 35. Walsall.

Network Systems Manager (Unfortunately on M$ Systems only - at the
moment..hoping to bring some TUX power to the fold soon).

Newbie to linux, used Mandrake 9.1 onwards. Also used Debian, Red Hat, and
various other distro's that I don't even care to mention due to their
complete inability to capture my attention for more than 30 seconds
(hardware detection being the main problem).

I'm keen to learn more, but hope in some ways I am able to contribute in any
way I can to this list.

Sean.

-----Original Message-----
From: wolves-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:wolves-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Mark Ellse
Sent: 23 July 2004 12:50
To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group
Subject: [Wolves] OSS evangelism

As many of you know, we have swapped completely to OpenOffice here at
school.

There are three key reasons why we did it:

1.   Philosophical: Not Microsoft and therefore not part of the monopoly.
2.   Financial: saved us a few pennies, but the cost for schools of MS 
software is not huge and the transition costs in time are significant.
3.   Cross-platform: can be used on Linux: see 1.
4.   Can give it away to the students.

The last one is the clincher. We can now require students to have the same
software at home as school, unlike with MS software where there are many
different versions about and the transition costs from an old to a new
version in terms of both hardware and software are too.

Parents have been informed that students will be required to have OOo at
home. We will give them a disk that they can use to install the software,
and off they go. But it will be a big plug for OOo if a large number of
schools followed this.

Mark Ellse




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