On 2013-04-20 04:11, goldf...@aol.in wrote: > Could we please educate 'educational' institutions so that they have > more value, save money and hopeful give back to LO.
In many cases this doesn't matter, the people deciding are paid not to choose free open source software (which includes LibreOffice). Here in Quebec we have 4 Microsoft lobbyists at the government making sure their software gets chosen in procurement. They also have a full time "open source advocate" that goes to each and every programmer group meeting and sits at their venues to provide free advice and Microsoft development tools. You will need to sit in the same place and be as present as those companies like Microsoft with strong economical incentive to keep Microsoft Office or other solutions in other to displace/replace them. Of course grassroots advocacy is not without any effects. In case that's not clear, a lot of money is involved, and lots of key people are paid not to even examine the options to MS Office. That remains the main obstacle in many places. Cheers, F. -- Fabián Rodríguez http://libreoffice.magicfab.ca -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
