is open office ready for university?

[paul sutton]

On the devon / cornwall lug in the uk,  I am involved in a discussion on 
GNU/LInux in schools, one of the things that keeps coming up in these 
discussions is
should schools / colleges etc be teaching people how to use computers 
and software or
should they be teaching how to use a specific package, which may not 
even be in use by the time that person leaves the insitution,   I think 
the consensus is that if you teach how to use a computer you teach the 
skills required to allow the users to learn any package they come across 
and adapt to the needs of the place they using.

I agree with what was said is that Open office should be perfectly 
adequate for most courses.  The important thing about openoffice is that 
it's not just free as in cost, but free as in freedom and allows copying 
and distribution of the software.

The open office site has lots of excellent free resources, for learning 
the software, I agree with what was said, give it a go.



Paul



PW Armstrong wrote:

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> sooooo, my daughter is off to university
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> yes, I've bought her a laptop
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> yes, I've caved, it runs xp
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> but I balked at buying a copy of ms office
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> her laptop actually came with a free copy of WP office X3, but she 
> says she needs ms office
>
> do I have to spring for this?  if WP office X3, isn't good enough, is 
> open office good enough?
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> any and all comments appreciated.
>
> -peter
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