Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (46 mails)

[Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Ian Lynch <ian.lynch@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Curious as to why you are on this list then since its largely the same
> issues.

What can I say?  I love nostalgia.  ;)
 
> You say there is nothing that can be done to get change. Things are
> changing, albeit slower than we might like. The changes are hard work
> and nothing worth having generally comes easy. Attitudes are changing -
> I now have regular meetings with BECTA on behalf of the OSS community,
> that in itself is a significant change - but there is still a long way
> to go.

Uh huh.  But as I so often see, Microsoft easily combat that, at least for
most people by slashing prices, reducing costs, etc.  I hope your meetings
with BECTA are fruitful.

> We are at different stages of this in different applications. Apache is
> a winner, Linux at the desktop in schools is probably spread through the

Apache always was a winner, cited as Linux's killer-application when it was
first launched.

> ignore, laugh and fight stages. The use of Open Standards is certainly a
> high profile theme with BECTA these days but there is massive inertia in
> the system. Even with committed people now its going to take years,

How high profile?  MS-Office is/will(?) purpotedly be using the open standard
for office file formats, so that MS-Office and OpenOffice can play nicely
together.

> there never was a quick fix option. If we just give up and say its all
> impossible it'll just take longer.

I hope that's all it is; time.

Thomas.


		
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