Re: [Trisquel-users] Big Changes Coming

[ninenine78]

Yea, it is pretty sad. I'm American, but I live in Mexico. My girlfriend goes  
to UABC here. The teachers require work to be in .doc .xls and .ppt
The funny thing is, I don't even think the teachers have legitimate copies of  
MS Office. It's all pirated. Their ignorance has them not only using  
proprietary formats when for their uses free software and formats would work,  
but also pirating software. This then in turn is basically a green light from  
university faculty that the students should pirate the software too. I don't  
know many mexican UABC students that can fork out for an MS Office license  
when the license is twice their semester's tuition.

It's a sad state of affairs I've brought to their attention time and again  
and they do nothing about it. I've been tempted to turn them in for piracy  
and condoning piracy, but on this side of the border I don't think anything  
would happen to them. Not so much that I care about pirating Microsoft's  
software, but it'd sort of stick it in their face that they either need to  
change, or be fined.