Hi All, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Puttick" <chris@centralmanclc.com> To: <suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 10:05 AM Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] WINE is all we need...
Hi
Anyone interested in collaborating on WINE how-tos for UK schools software. It's the only argument left that is stopping Manchester eduation migrating to Linux. It could well involve contributions into the WINE project itself, if there are any interested coders out there...
Cheers
Chris Puttick IT Manager Central Manchester CLC
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As and active advocate of open source software in schools I have to question the reasoning behind the desire to run WINE at all, surely the ideal in an educational environment is to provide usable, cost effective and reliable software on the desktop. WINE allows you to run Windows application under Linux/Unix, so what? You still have to pay for licensing for those applications, it's less reliable that running those applications on their native platform and have you tried to get Micro$oft to support there support their software when running it on another O/S, no I didn't think so :-) Surely we should be putting our combined efforts into finding/supporting/developing applications which are good solid open source replacements for Microsoft Office et al. I agree with you that we should be assisting the developers and providing central support for open source products, but lets ensure that we choose the correct people to support. -- John Ralph ICT Support Manager Rhodesway School and Rhodesway CLC Supporting Open Source in Schools