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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Re: StarOffice
- From: "Mark Evans" <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:51:29 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <20020211105312.20616.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Munro [mailto:paul.munro1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Yep- if that's the site pricing for StarOffice 6.0 then I
> > probably know a
> > couple of sites that would take that up immediately.
>
> It is so stupid this concept that people have that free is bad - and I
> think the only thing that will quash it is case studies that prove that
> a technology that is free can be useful.
Oddly most people manage to do things like send email
and browse the web perfectly well. At the most basic
level there simply wouldn't be any "Internet" without
free software.
Indeed I can't think of *any* form of communications
system which uses (or used) "non free" technology.
--
Mark Evans
St. Peter's CofE High School
Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109
Fax: +44 1392 204763
> > From: Paul Munro [mailto:paul.munro1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Yep- if that's the site pricing for StarOffice 6.0 then I
> > probably know a
> > couple of sites that would take that up immediately.
>
> It is so stupid this concept that people have that free is bad - and I
> think the only thing that will quash it is case studies that prove that
> a technology that is free can be useful.
Oddly most people manage to do things like send email
and browse the web perfectly well. At the most basic
level there simply wouldn't be any "Internet" without
free software.
Indeed I can't think of *any* form of communications
system which uses (or used) "non free" technology.
--
Mark Evans
St. Peter's CofE High School
Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109
Fax: +44 1392 204763
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