Re: Universities and Colleges Recognise and Promote OpenOffice

[Jamie Hart <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

cc wrote:
> JDS wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:00:09 +0100, Mark Kent wrote:
> >
> > > Ah, you have some work to do, then...
> > I'm not sure what that is supposed to mean, except, I guess, to imply that
> > *I* use Microsoft Windows to "get work done"
> >
> > Except I don't.
> >
> > I use Linux on my workstation.
> > I use Linux on my server(s).
> > I use Mac OS X on my laptop. (And dual boot Linux on the laptop, a black
> > Intel MacBook).
> > And I use OpenOffice for everything that could be done with MS Office.
> >
> > and I get work done just fine.
> >
> > I am lucky in that, although my institution as a whole is
> > Microsoft-centric, there is nothing in the way of policy that bars me from
> > using whatever computer system I am most happy with.
>
>
> I thought he meant that you had some work to do in getting them to
> convert to Linux. As in, go advocate or something.
That's the way I read it too.

Uh, Oh.   Another "Me Too" post.  Hope the Wintrolls don't see it.