On 10/05/13 09:22, Tony Pursell wrote:
Hi John
On 10 May 2013 00:09, John Oliver
jp.oli...@ntlworld.com
mailto:jp.oli...@ntlworld.com wrote:
I suppose it depends what's available on the platform. Looking at
schools and colleges on the UK the vast majority run Windows XP or
7.
John Oliver wrote:
If you're in education trying to teach children to word process it simply
isn't faesable to try to explain the difference between proprietary
and open-source software etc and then to get them to make a choice.
I think the notion of software freedom is absolutely the sort of
Pete wrote:
On 09/05/13 22:30, SuperEngineer wrote:
On 09/05/13 22:18, Sean Miller wrote:
If you extended this to the open market as a whole, then every
washing machine should have alternative operating systems.
No, it's not something I subscribe to.
If a manufacturer wishes to go with
Hi John
On 10 May 2013 00:09, John Oliver jp.oli...@ntlworld.com wrote:
I suppose it depends what's available on the platform. Looking at schools
and colleges on the UK the vast majority run Windows XP or 7. That's not
necessarily because of the technical staff who are often perfectly capable
On 10 May 2013 10:02, James Tait james.t...@wyrddreams.org wrote:
On 09/05/13 23:04, SuperEngineer wrote:
just one final word (sentence)- my word educate was deliberate...
get the kids using Linux, let them think it's 'normal'.
I'm sure my boys' response to that would be Why, isn't it?
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On 10/05/13 15:59, Byte Soup wrote:
On 10 May 2013 10:02, James Tait james.t...@wyrddreams.org
mailto:james.t...@wyrddreams.org wrote:
On 09/05/13 23:04, SuperEngineer wrote:
just one final word (sentence)- my word educate was
deliberate...
And yet regrettably the IT teachers are stuck on one system, bound by the
equipment provided, and the IT support who usually run the network as well.
The brighter ones will get the concept but many simply don't (or won't)
understand and will end up more confused. I've been volunteering
On May 10, 2013 8:33 PM, John Oliver jp.oli...@ntlworld.com wrote:
John Oliver
PS: I do rather like excel as a program even if some functions are hidden
away in that tabular view. If on Windows and it was installed alongside
LibreOffice I would likely choose Excel. I use LibreOffice at home.
Thanks - I'll have a look at those :)
Regards,
John Oliver
On 10 May 2013, at 21:36, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés a75...@alumni.tecnun.es
wrote:
On May 10, 2013 8:33 PM, John Oliver jp.oli...@ntlworld.com wrote:
John Oliver
PS: I do rather like excel as a program even if some functions
The problem with not resolving bug #1 stares me in the face. That being
the fact that EEC, UsA? etc are prepared to force Microsoft to offer
more than their own browser... but are not prepared to take on the real
monopoly. That being the fact that manufactures should offer a dual
boot at
If you extended this to the open market as a whole, then every washing
machine should have alternative operating systems.
No, it's not something I subscribe to.
If a manufacturer wishes to go with Windows, then that's fine.
If Ubuntu wants to become the OS of choice then let's PERSUADE rather
On 09/05/13 22:18, Sean Miller wrote:
let's PERSUADE rather than force
Sean - an excerpt from another post related to this sent my moi...
I occasionally go back to same store - not a Linux machine in sight.
Those in the know at the store share my disappointment - but the average
comment is
On 09/05/13 22:18, Sean Miller wrote:
If you extended this to the open market as a whole, then every washing
machine should have alternative operating systems.
No, it's not something I subscribe to.
If a manufacturer wishes to go with Windows, then that's fine.
If Ubuntu wants to become the
On 09/05/13 22:18, Sean Miller wrote:
If Ubuntu wants to become the OS of choice then let's PERSUADE rather
than force people to provide an option
Pre installation is a significant factor, as is investment, and risk,
and several other aspects too, in the story. A head-on confrontation
with a
On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 22:38 +0100, alan c wrote:
I would suggest that -public- lists where strategy is formulated to
take over the world, or whatever, might be seen as just a little,
well, naive, when the competition is such as we find. It is more than
easy to steer (a very polite way to
I suppose it depends what's available on the platform. Looking at schools and
colleges on the UK the vast majority run Windows XP or 7. That's not
necessarily because of the technical staff who are often perfectly capable of
using and managing a GNU/Linux system or set of systems, not is it
XP is going to be dead, no security updates. Lubuntu has realised this, we
are asking xubutu and kubuntu to come on board. The initial one was just
lubuntu, it is now open to all the flavours to get on board with this, For
schools / colleges? Use Edubutnu, or is there no one in UK who knows of it?
On 09/05/13 22:30, SuperEngineer wrote:
On
09/05/13 22:18, Sean Miller wrote:
If you extended this to the open market as
a whole, then every washing machine should have alternative
operating systems.
No, it's not
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