On Friday 06 June 2003 01:03, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> Quoth Dan Armak on Wed, Jun 04, 2003:
> > - They are teaching (badly, but that's outside our scope) to use software
> > that (I hope) won't be used nearly as much much in the not too distant
> > future (ie by the time people now in 7th grade graduate).
>
> You should teach *something*.  Why is C taught in schools?  Is it
> the best programming language?  Is it widely used?  Well, yes, it
> is, but will it be widely used in five years?

The difference is that we want to actively fight the usage of msoffice. And it 
seems some people/bodies in the government want to fight it too, so we've got 
some leverage.

>
> > Thus counteracting the
> > government's pro-openoffice policy.
>
> What did I miss?  Is OpenOffice the new Israeli standard?

I was referring to all the announcements made at go-linux. (I don't know what 
if anything has actually been done except for the translation of the 
openoffice interface to Hebrew.)

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Dan Armak
Matan, Israel
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