Subject: RE: Fwd: Distributing OpenOffice to schools
From: William F. Fulton (fulton@gci.net)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 14:24:21 AKDT
Another way to look at it is this
Schools are there to teach individuals to exist in the job market at
this time a large majority of businesses continue to pay for and use M$
Office until we can integrate open source applications into the majority
of businesses it would be foolish for public institutions to use any
other product. The problem isn't the IT departments of the schools
mentality it is the various corporations' insistence on using M$
products. Until we change corporate and government buying practices
there is no hope for Open Source anything to have more than a back seat
role in education.
William F. Fulton
Northern Lights Automation
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Distributing OpenOffice to schools
Fielder-
To the best of my knowledge UAA has site licenses for various flavors of
Windoz
(xp, etc) and for MS-office 2000. The corporate mentality of UAA-IT is
such
that I can never see them taking a plunge into open-source software.
There is a
desire to have identical software, to the point of discussing re-imaging
hard
drives every 6 months. Got to admit that from a underfunded IT support
point of
view, it is attractive.
Could be that as M$ pursues more and more heinous license policies, that
this
view may change, but not for the present.,
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>My son, George, is heading toward Clemson University for their graduate
>program in computer science. He just called from a rest stop west of
>Columbia, Missouri. I decided to visit the Clemson web site and check
>out the CS Department.
>
>I was not surprised to find reference to a Microsoft site license. Here
>it is:
>
> http://dcit.clemson.edu/pub/homepage/microsoft.html
>
>
>This illustrates my consern that just distributing OpenOffice CD's is
>not going to make much of a dent in the mind set of not-for-profits
>including educational institutions. The IT departments have a stake in
>this. Their careers are on the line. To accept a free CD even for
>evaluation would suggest they have not been doing their job.
>
>Perhaps someone on the list can find out what institutions have MS site
>licenses. It seems that MS Office and Windows are like Siamese Twins.
>
>I do want to have free CD's available. IT Expo is coming up. There will
>be educators and other not-for-profits attending. All I have is
>questions at this point.
>
>Cheerio! fgd.
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