Quoting Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Just on the way back from Australia. I have just had approval from the > UK government for a grant to pay for the NEA booth in LA so we will have > an OOo and INGOT presence there. The link below gives a summary of the > e-stratey for schools in the UK. Its difficult to see how this will be > achievable without using Open Standards and Open Source solutions so now > that the Government is talking to us seriously about Open Source things > are definitely looking up. > http://www.dfes.gov.uk/publications/e-strategy/ > > Can't remember if I said, but the letter I sent on behalf of the > community about Microsoft sponsorship for specialist schools seems to > have worked. In principle there is agreement to count OOo as sponsorship > with the same value as the equivalent MS licences which means schools > using OOo will help trigger up to 500k dollars in additional funding. > Still a bit to go to finalise things but that letter was well worth > writing :-) > > I am extremely concerned that there needs to be a strong distinction between a private commercial venture such as theIngots and OpenOffice.org.
theIngots, to me, does not follow the principles of openess that I would expect, of such a project. theIngots is a private, commercial operation that is copyrighting its material, and is there for private commercial gain. Secondly, I consider the quality of the theIngots material, at the moment, to be of such a poor quality that it would reflect badly on the rest of the community. Thanks, Ian Laurenson --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
