re-thinking LUGs and early planning for the first Canadian LUG summit

[James Knott]

Henry de Valence wrote:
> On November 7, 2007 07:58:28 pm David J Patrick wrote:
>   
>> There are coMpanieS that would
>> love to see a hard vendor lock-in at federal, provincial and municipal
>> levels, and some pre-emptive actions would be prudent.
>>     
>
> Speaking of which, I hear that the K-6 schools are all using StarOffice. 
> What's with that? OpenOffice is free, and does the same thing.
>   
As I recall, StarOffice is provided for free, by Sun.  There was an
announcement about that a couple of years ago.  As long as they're using
some ODF compliant office suite, that's fine by me.  Those kids will
grow up knowing that you don't have to use Microsoft products and that's
a very good thing.


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