Yes, indeed I'm a Canadian living in Toronto and a student in the TDSB. Sadiq S mailto: sadiq.9...@gmail.com Blog: www.staticsafe.me Twitter - www.twitter.com/staticsafe Facebook- www.facebook.com/static.safe
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Marc Paré <m...@marcpare.com> wrote: > Le 2010-10-17 19:27, Sadiq Saif a écrit : > > Price may be one marketing point, though this may be offset by training >> and >> support costs. But we must keep in mind the huge amount of mind share that >> MS Office has build up over the years. People are too used to Office and >> how >> it works. In fact even if LibreOffice is better (we hope) than MS Office, >> we >> still won't see a widespread adoption of LibreOffice or FOSS software for >> that matter. I am pretty sure that big school boards like the TDSB have >> contracts with Microsoft as well. >> >> Sadiq S >> mailto: sadiq.9...@gmail.com >> Blog: www.staticsafe.me >> Twitter - www.twitter.com/staticsafe >> Facebook- www.facebook.com/static.safe >> >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Marc Paré<m...@marcpare.com> wrote: >> >> > Thanks for the note Sadiq. Yes, the training and support costs could be a > problem if LibO does not have the infrastructure to take care of a "general > use" help desk type of mailist. But so far, the user mailist on OOo has been > great. Our new LibO user mailist is new and is just started to attract > attention from users. We just have to market it properly. > > BTW, you speak of large boards like the TDSB. Are you Canadian? > > Marc > Waterloo, Canada > > > > -- > E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org<marketing%2bh...@libreoffice.org>for > instructions on how to unsubscribe > List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ > All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
