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____/ bbgruff on Friday 02 Oct 2009 23:49 : \____
> Matt wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> DK: Lyngby-TaarbÃk moves schools to OpenOffice
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>>> | The administration of the Danish municipality of Lyngby-
>>> | TaarbÃk is installing OpenOffice on some 1700 school
>>> | desktop PCs, the administration announced yesterday.
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>>> http://www.osor.eu/news/dk-lyngby-taarbek-moves-schools-to-openoffice
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>>
>> same link:
>> (((((
>>> ITST says the Lyngby-TaarbÃk municipality decided to move to open source
>>> following recommendations by the Ministry of Science that this type of
>>> software should be considered when procuring IT solutions. "The choice
>>> was clear, the municipality now switches to open source and will thus be
>>> able to afford new computers."
>> )))))
>>
>>
>> Bottom-up advocacy influences people who are able to make top-down
>> changes. It is a lot more fruitful than peer-to-peer advocacy.
>
> Yes.
> My own recollection of "IBM PC Adoption" (and hence MS DOS) in the early
> 1980s was that it started in the corporate environment, and then moved
> gradually into home and education.
> Typically I think, in those days, mums/dads gradually replaced the "home
> computers" of the day with IBM clones, and stole the OS and S/W from work!
> - but no need to steal with FOSS, of course - it makes us all honest :-)
Microsoft probably prepares an EDGI pack for that school as we speak. :-)
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