is open office ready for university?

[Alex Maynard]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, paul sutton wrote:

> 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.

One exception is that some course textbooks have Excel add-ons that are
probably excel only.  For example, when I used to teach an intro
stats course for business majors all the textbooks had this.

Alex

> 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:
>
> >
> >
> > sooooo, my daughter is off to university
> >
> > yes, I've bought her a laptop
> >
> > yes, I've caved, it runs xp
> >
> > but I balked at buying a copy of ms office
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > any and all comments appreciated.
> >
> > -peter
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
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