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____/ Matt on Saturday 03 Oct 2009 01:42 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ bbgruff on Friday 02 Oct 2009 23:49 : \____
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>>> Matt wrote:
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>>>> 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.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.osor.eu/news/dk-lyngby-taarbek-moves-schools-to-openoffice
>>>>
>>>> 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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> And for who knows how many more schools. If the national government
> were to subsidize the Lyngby-TaarbÃk migration, they could drive
> software costs in their other schools down to near zero and benefit from
> an ODF case study at the same time.
Lund and the other Microsoft minions in Copenhagen must be watching closely...
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