[ILUG] Typical - Schools / vendor lockin.

[Ken Guest]

yes. perhaps http://scoil.linux.ie/ should be resurrected and more focus
given to it

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:38 AM, David Howe <david.howe at howesystems.com>
wrote:

> Ken,
>
> Perhaps it is time to bring up that "article what I wrote" a number of
> years ago for ILUG.
>
> http://www.linux.ie/articles/opensourceinprimaryeducation.php
>
> Progress is slow but hopefully things are changing.
>
> On Fri, April 4, 2008 11:02 am, Ken Guest wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Nick Murtagh <nickm at go2.ie> wrote:
> >
> >> <snip>
> >> As far as I know Publisher is the worst of the worst - I've never come
> >> across anything other than Publisher that can read Publisher files.
> >> There were even compatibility problems between different versions of
> >> Publisher!
> >>
> >
> > good grief that  sounds absolutely terrible.
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