Windows at school, a student's perspective

[Anton Markov]

James Knott wrote:
> B B wrote:
> 
>>
>> Publicly funded Schools should, of course use open
>> file formats and not force you to submit work in
>> proprietary file formats. If M$ wants those programs
>> in schools it should be forced to GPL the code but
>> instead it looks like it has chosen to bribe the
>> schools and deceive the students with pretend
>> innovation and con man offers.
> 
> 
> Supposedly, students in Ontario schools are supposed to be using Star 
> Office at school and OpenOffice at home.  However, I haven't heard of 
> anyone using it.  Is it there yet?

Most computers in our school have either Corel WordPerfect Suit, 
Microsoft Office 97, or both, but now StarOffice. Incidently, Corel 
WordPerfect is so incompatible with anything else out there, that only 
those computer with MS Office are usable; what an irony.

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