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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Aparently primnary schools are forced to use MS office so the children are ready for what is used in Secondary schools which is I guess a fair argument i guess. And i guess secondaries feel obliged to use MS office as they see it as "industry standard." However looking at what happen at the exwick community centre where they children/ Young people and adults there seemed to have little problem finding their way around ubuntu (which looks a lot different to windows), it proves that the children would have no problems going from say open office to Ms office in the secondary school, ( I am only going from what has been said in the e-mails since) I am not an expert, but it seems no matter what justification people try and use for using Windows, there is a way round it, Kids / young people can simply adapt, I am 33 and having used KDE for years, installed ubuntu (using gnome) had no problem with it, ok it take a while to find what I need, but I have 3 menus, applications, places, adn system, so its pretty obvious what each one is for, When we have more write ups, we should have more observations and evidence to back the above up, Paul David King wrote: > The other way to get windows out of schools is to remove the glass and > replace with bricks :-) > > David King > > > Vinothan Shankar wrote: >> I've created a petition to the Prime Minister to make the primary OS in >> schools free and open source - it can be found at >> http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/nonMSschools. To anyone that points >> out I should have suggested Ubuntu for Education, the first submission >> did, but was rejected on the grounds that it was "promoting commercial >> products or services". The petition should probably also have pointed >> out that schools could keep the same hardware, but petitions there are >> restricted to 1000 characters including spaces. >> >> Please sign. >> > - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org Next Linux User Group meet : March 7th : 3pm, Shoreline Cafe Paignton -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmQEukACgkQaggq1k2FJq1/5wCgkUjrzWDrrYwX7PP2pTFYoUYb z9MAn3lO7xojGrzIHxyW3qCrwlGKHRVi =NYF3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html