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[jbarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jack Barnett)]

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From: Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
To: <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 1:09 PM
Subject: RE: [SLE] the future of Linux?

> Years ago, Apple did this by donating Apple IIs to schools and user
> groups. Many schools around the country were very Mac centric. With
> the price of MS Office today, one can just about buy a whole new
> computer with Linux and Star Office preinstalled for the price of just one
> MS Office. It is important today for Sun (Star Office), Corel (Word
Perfect
> et. al.) and Applixware to be agressive in the M$ compatibility.

They should also support read/write for each others format (if they don't
already). ie. Star Office should be able to write a document out and Word
Perfect should be able to read it in, edit and write it back out.

>
> On 17 Mar 00, at 11:48, Samy Elashmawy wrote:
>
> >
> > M$ is also entrenched in the colledge and school system.
> Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
> Associate Director
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
> http://www.blu.org
>
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