On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 11:28, Alan Harris wrote:
Take a look at this site reference
http://itwales.com/cgi/showsite/showpage.cgi?999036
Is Becta trying to put these guys out of business then ?
Actually the Welsh angle is a good one. There was some discussion about
localising OO.o in Gaelic and Welsh as well as Klingon!
I also believe that the complaints don't have to come from teachers.
Complaints about fair trading are more effective coming from competing
suppliers than from customers. So OO.o has a legitimate case as a
supplier of Office software. Schoolforge UK as a representative of
education interests and AFFS as a political pressure group. If BECTA
discriminated against disabled people, organisations supporting the
disabled would complain, it doesn't have to be teachers and indeed the
more complaints from a wide representation the better.
PS - do bring a Mac with OO.o on it to the FLOSSIE conference!
--
ian