[Wolves] Your Feedback Please ! :) - Linux on my work laptop.
David Goodwin
dg at clocksoft.com
Mon Aug 15 21:18:45 BST 2005
> Some weeks ago, one of teachers at the school where I work, came to me to say
> that "I can't find Windows on my laptop". So I fires it up, and up comes XP.
> "There you go, that's Windows". "No it's not", says the teacher, "I want to
> do some word processing, and I can't". "Ahhh", says I, "You want either a
> word processor, or preferably an office suite, and XP doesn't come with
> that". "Oh", says teacher, "What can I do?" "Well, either spend more money
> and buy MS/Office or we can install Open Office for free". "I'll go and have
> a think", says teacher and AFAIK he's still thinking about it.
Which illustrates quite well how people think that because it's free
it's obviously not as good....
Perhaps a better way of putting it would be :
I can give you OpenOffice now, but if you want MSOffice you'll need to
fill in XYZ forms and wait a week or so.... ;)
David.
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