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Subject:    Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Becta and Welsh
From:       ian <ian.lynch2 () ntlworld ! com>
Date:       2003-12-17 12:36:26
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On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 11:28, Alan Harris wrote:
> Take a look at this site reference
> 
> http://itwales.com/cgi/showsite/showpage.cgi?999036
> 
> Is Becta trying to put these guys out of business then ?

Actually the Welsh angle is a good one. There was some discussion about
localising OO.o in Gaelic and Welsh as well as Klingon!

I also believe that the complaints don't have to come from teachers.
Complaints about fair trading are more effective coming from competing
suppliers than from customers. So OO.o has a legitimate case as a
supplier of Office software. Schoolforge UK as a representative of
education interests and AFFS as a political pressure group. If BECTA
discriminated against disabled people, organisations supporting the
disabled would complain, it doesn't have to be teachers and indeed the
more complaints from a wide representation the better.

PS - do bring a Mac with OO.o on it to the FLOSSIE conference!
-- 
ian <ian.lynch2@ntlworld.com>


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